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* Add a "pinning" reference
A `Fiddle::Pinned` objects will prevent the objects they point to from
moving. This is useful in the case where you need to pass a reference
to a C extension that keeps the address in a global and needs the
address to be stable.
For example:
```ruby
class Foo
A = "hi" # this is an embedded string
some_c_function A # A might move!
end
```
If `A` moves, then the underlying string buffer may also move.
`Fiddle::Pinned` will prevent the object from moving:
```ruby
class Foo
A = "hi" # this is an embedded string
A_pinner = Fiddle::Pinned.new(A) # :nodoc:
some_c_function A # A can't move because of `Fiddle::Pinned`
end
```
This is a similar strategy to what Graal uses:
https://www.graalvm.org/sdk/javadoc/org/graalvm/nativeimage/PinnedObject.html#getObject--
* rename global to match exception name
* Introduce generic Fiddle::Error and rearrange error classes
Fiddle::Error is the generic exception base class for Fiddle exceptions.
This commit introduces the class and rearranges Fiddle exceptions to
inherit from it.
https://github.com/ruby/fiddle/commit/ac52d00223
Notes:
Merged: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3780
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