* object.c (Init_Object): move symbol related code to string.c

* string.c (Init_String): Symbol as subclass of String.

* parse.y (rb_intern2): handle symbol as strings.

* string.c (str_new): substring of symbols are mere strings, not
  symbols.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@10834 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gc.c b/gc.c
index 0ae9bb62a0..8681175191 100644
--- a/gc.c
+++ b/gc.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ garbage_collect(void)
 			 (VALUE*)((char*)rb_gc_stack_start + 2));
 #endif
     rb_gc_mark_threads();
+    rb_gc_mark_symbols();
 
     /* mark protected global variables */
     for (list = global_List; list; list = list->next) {