Fixes for GC.compact #275
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Fixes for GC.compact #275
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Without doing this the GC could move the objects returned by rb_const_get and make Semian's globals point to unexpected objects on the heap.
Without using `extern` in the header file it was making multiple definitions of the same variable.
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Yes, plenty of extensions have this issue. |
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Without doing this the GC could move the objects returned by
rb_const_get and make Semian's globals point to unexpected objects on
the heap.
No tests here because usually compaction bugs are hard to trigger reliably. I'm trying to trigger them in #274 though. If it goes well maybe we should include that as a best-effort regression test.