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DllImport, Callbacks and garbage collection

Hi.

I am trying to make this work but I got a weird behavior. I got a very
basic system, I call a unmanaged "dllimporte d" function and give it a
structure of callback functions.

Sometimes, the unmanaged part calls one of the callback functions. But
the first one has its pointer changed from its address to "0x00000001 ".
I can't figure out why.

My thought is it gets garbage collected, but I don't see why (I tried
different ways, I currently use the structure instance as static). Also
why does the garbage collector would set this to 1 instead of 0 ?

Any link or help will be appreciated :)

The code : http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/odKsGI15.html
Nov 17 '05
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"Ted Miller" <te*@millerzone .net> wrote in message
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What about just decorating the fields in the struct with

[MarshalAs(Unman agedType.Functi onPtr)]

This is available in 1.1 and 2.0. No need for hacks.


Good catch, it's the default attribute for Delegate arguments, must have
missed the fact that it could be applied to fields to.

Thanks,
Willy.

Nov 17 '05 #11

"Ted Miller" <te*@millerzone .net> wrote in message
news:11******** *****@corp.supe rnews.com...
What about just decorating the fields in the struct with

[MarshalAs(Unman agedType.Functi onPtr)]

This is available in 1.1 and 2.0. No need for hacks.


Good catch, it's the default attribute for Delegate arguments, must have
missed the fact that it could be applied to fields to.

Thanks,
Willy.

Nov 17 '05 #12

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