Re: pinning types via 'Fixed'

From: cody (dont.spam.me.deutronium_at_gmx.de)
Date: 02/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 22:32:55 +0100

> I have a question on pinning types via 'fixed'. In "Com and .NET
> interoperability" by Andrew Troelsen, he provides a simple example of
> .NET -> Native interoperability:
>
> int[] theVals={1,2,3,4};
> MyCustomDLLWrapper.AddArray(theVals,theVals.Length)
>
> where MyCustomDLLWrapper wraps a native (C++) .dll:
>
> public class MyCustomDLLWrapper
> {
> [DllImport("MyCustomDll.dll")]
> public static extern int AddNumbers(int x[], int size);
> }
>
> Where AddNumbers is defined (obviously) in MyCustomDll.dll
>
> Now, for correctness, shouldn't he be locking the reference to the
> array in memory so it isn't garbage collected? So, shouldn't it be:
>
> int[] theVals={1,2,3,4};
> fixed(int* pinnedAry = theVals)
> {
> MyCustomDLLWrapper.AddArray(pinnedAry,theVals.Length)
> }

The array cannot be garbage collected since there is still a refererence on
it. But it might be moved in memory when not beeing fixed so it is IMHO
always nesseccary to fix objects when passing them to native functions. 

-- 
cody
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