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How to marshal to a pointer to a pointer

I need to pass a pointer to pointer in a C++ method that has a float**
parameter. How do I do this?

Thanks for your help
Johann

Nov 17 '05 #1
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>I need to pass a pointer to pointer in a C++ method that has a float**
parameter. How do I do this?


It depends if it's an input or output parameter, who allocates the
memory and so on. Using a single IntPtr or an IntPtr[] may work.

Mattias

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