Pointer to a generic type parameter

Hi

I'm new in VC++ and have a question to generics. I have a generic
class, which contains an array of the generic type. This array I can
pin and then I would like to get an unmanaged pointer to it. Therefore
I wanted to creat a class member which represents the pointer to the
array. Unfortunately I get the folowring compile error for the code
beneath:

error C3229: 'DataType *' : indirections on a generic type parameter
are not allowed

Is there a posible way to get a this unmanaged pointer? My problem is
that it isn't allowed to creat a pin_ptr<DataType> as a class member
and it takes quite a while to do it every function call. Or, do I I
realy have to do a hack and creat a void* from the array by using
GCHandle::Alloc(...).AddrOfPinnedObject().ToPointer() and then cast it
to a byte* and shift it each time by sizeof(DataType)?

By the way, my generic typs are never reference objects, only value
structs and data types like int, byte, ... .

Thanks for any help!

Thorsten



generic<typename DataType> public ref class RingBuffer
{
array<DataType> ^m_Buffer;
DataType *m_Buffer_Ptr; // Error
}

.

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