Platform Invoke, LoaderLock

[Light]

I've a few questions on platform invoke and some issues I've seen.

1. Is it possible to avoid LoaderLock exception without simply turning
it off? Does it occur in .NET projects with win32 dll or ONLY in .NET
projects with a mixed win32+.NET dll?

2. How to pass a .NET type to a C++ char ** type? My assumption is
this is required unsafe code section and use of pointer.
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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Light,

1. Is it possible to avoid LoaderLock exception without simply turning
it off? Does it occur in .NET projects with win32 dll or ONLY in .NET
projects with a mixed win32+.NET dll?
LoaderLockException? I can't find any documentation in the framework
that this even exists. Are you sure it is this, and not something else?
2. How to pass a .NET type to a C++ char ** type? My assumption is
this is required unsafe code section and use of pointer.

You can do it with an IntPtr as well. You don't ^need^ unsafe code, but
it would probably make it much easier.

Hope this helps.

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[Kevin Spencer]

> LoaderLockException? I can't find any documentation in the framework

that this even exists. Are you sure it is this, and not something else?
It's part of the Visual Studio.Net 2005 debugging apparatus. You can find it
under the Debug|Exceptions menu. Look at "Managed Debugging Assistants."

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"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote in
message news:eH*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Light,

1. Is it possible to avoid LoaderLock exception without simply turning
it off? Does it occur in .NET projects with win32 dll or ONLY in .NET
projects with a mixed win32+.NET dll?

LoaderLockException? I can't find any documentation in the framework
that this even exists. Are you sure it is this, and not something else?

2. How to pass a .NET type to a C++ char ** type? My assumption is
this is required unsafe code section and use of pointer.

You can do it with an IntPtr as well. You don't ^need^ unsafe code,
but it would probably make it much easier.

Hope this helps.

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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

"Light" <Li********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| I've a few questions on platform invoke and some issues I've seen.
|
| 1. Is it possible to avoid LoaderLock exception without simply turning
| it off? Does it occur in .NET projects with win32 dll or ONLY in .NET
| projects with a mixed win32+.NET dll?
|
A Loaderlocks MDA (which is not an exception), occurs when a Win32 or a
mixed mode DLL calls into managed code when it holds a NT loader lock
(mostly when executing in DllMain), so the only way to get rid of this is by
correcting the DLL code.

| 2. How to pass a .NET type to a C++ char ** type? My assumption is
| this is required unsafe code section and use of pointer.

In general unsafe is not needed, an IntPtr can be used as well.

Willy.