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.