Ruby FFI tries to be symmetric about who owns memory - if you allocate it (i.e. The C code), you have to free it. Conversely, if FFI allocates it, it alone can free it.
I think that in many ffi, whichever language you use, values of builtin types (like strings) must be constructed using specially provided runtime functions. Ruby abides to this rule.
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