Sizes 1.0 released

[Colin Mackenzie iv]

I've just released a new gem called "sizes".

This is a very simple gem that exposes "sizeof" to Ruby to enable
checking size of primitive types like :float, :unsigned_int, and so
forth. I needed this for a parser I was writing, (I didn't feel like
writing the whole thing in C), couldn't find a way to do it without an
extension, and saw no reason not to publish the code afterward.

I hope I didn't just reinvent something that already exists in core Ruby
-- but I couldn't find it if it does, no matter how hard I Googled.

Documentation and source code:
http://github.com/sinisterchipmunk/sizes

-Colin MacKenzie IV
http://thoughtsincomputation.com

 

[Ammar Ali]

I've just released a new gem called "sizes".

This is a very simple gem that exposes "sizeof" to Ruby to enable
checking size of primitive types like :float, :unsigned_int, and so
forth. I needed this for a parser I was writing, (I didn't feel like
writing the whole thing in C), couldn't find a way to do it without an
extension, and saw no reason not to publish the code afterward.

I hope I didn't just reinvent something that already exists in core Ruby
-- but I couldn't find it if it does, no matter how hard I Googled.

Documentation and source code:
http://github.com/sinisterchipmunk/sizes

-Colin MacKenzie IV
http://thoughtsincomputation.com

Cool. It would be nice to add the C99 type names, like int8, uint32, etc..

Cheers,
Ammar

 

[Jeremy Bopp]

I've just released a new gem called "sizes".

This is a very simple gem that exposes "sizeof" to Ruby to enable
checking size of primitive types like :float, :unsigned_int, and so
forth. I needed this for a parser I was writing, (I didn't feel like
writing the whole thing in C), couldn't find a way to do it without an
extension, and saw no reason not to publish the code afterward.

I hope I didn't just reinvent something that already exists in core Ruby
-- but I couldn't find it if it does, no matter how hard I Googled.

Documentation and source code:
http://github.com/sinisterchipmunk/sizes

I think this sort of functionality may already be available as part of
the ffi gem:

irb(main):001:0> require 'ffi'
irb(main):002:0> FFI::TypeDefs[:int].size
=> 4
irb(main):003:0> FFI::TypeDefs[:int8].size
=> 1
irb(main):004:0> FFI::TypeDefs[:uint].size
=> 4
irb(main):005:0> FFI::TypeDefs[:int64].size
=> 8
irb(main):006:0> FFI::TypeDefs[:float].size
=> 4

-Jeremy

 

[Colin Mackenzie iv]

Cool. It would be nice to add the C99 type names, like int8,

uint32, etc..
Cheers, Ammar

Done! Just pushed v1.1 including the additional types. See the
documentation (again).

I think this sort of functionality may already be available as
part of the ffi gem:

Sweet. I knew something like this had to exist, but got tired of
googling. I spent more time looking than I did coding my own!

Thanks for the replies,
-Colin MacKenzie IV
http://thoughtsincomputation.com
@sinisterchipmnk