malloc

Author: Jan Wedekind Copyright: 2010 License: GPL

Synopsis

This Ruby extension defines the class Hornetseye::Malloc. Hornetseye::Malloc.new allows you to allocate memory, using Hornetseye::Malloc#+ one can do pointer manipulation, and Hornetseye::Malloc#read and Hornetseye::Malloc#write provide reading Ruby strings from memory and writing Ruby strings to memory.

Installation

To install this Ruby extension, use the following command:

$ sudo gem install malloc

Alternatively you can build and install the Ruby extension from source as follows:

$ rake
$ sudo rake install

Usage

Simply run Interactive Ruby:

$ irb

You can load the Ruby extension like this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'malloc'
include Hornetseye

See documentation of Hornetseye::Malloc on how to use this Ruby extension.