ruby fixnums

[Elias Athanasopoulos]

Hello!

As I have understood Ruby fixnums are passed by value and
you can grab the value as an integer like:

VALUE foo;
int i = (int) (foo >> 1);

Is there any way to get an explicit reference of the
value of the fixnum in C, without allocating new space, or using
a new integer pointer?

I.e. what &RFLOAT(foo)->value does.

Regards,

 

[Elias Athanasopoulos]

So the short answer is no, there's no way to change the value of a
Fixnum object like you could with a Float, even from C code. A Fixnum is
what it is.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

Regards,