Author: Jan Wedekind Copyright: 2010 License: GPL
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.
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
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.