Maintenance Ruby 3.3 gets fixes, but no new features. Switch to Ruby 4.0 →
instance method
Fiddle::Pointer#[]
ptr[index] → an_integer
ptr[start, length] → a_string
ext/fiddle/pointer.c
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static VALUE
rb_fiddle_ptr_aref(int argc, VALUE argv[], VALUE self)
{
VALUE arg0, arg1;
VALUE retval = Qnil;
size_t offset, len;
struct ptr_data *data;
TypedData_Get_Struct(self, struct ptr_data, &fiddle_ptr_data_type, data);
if (!data->ptr) rb_raise(rb_eFiddleDLError, "NULL pointer dereference");
switch( rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "11", &arg0, &arg1) ){
case 1:
offset = NUM2ULONG(arg0);
retval = INT2NUM(*((char *)data->ptr + offset));
break;
case 2:
offset = NUM2ULONG(arg0);
len = NUM2ULONG(arg1);
retval = rb_str_new((char *)data->ptr + offset, len);
break;
default:
rb_bug("rb_fiddle_ptr_aref()");
}
return retval;
}
Returns integer stored at index.
If start and length are given, a string containing the bytes from start of length will be returned.