Hey All,
This may be a simple one but I thought I would throw it out there
because I can't find an answer. Structures are value types as we know.
Thus they are stored on the stack. What happenes though, if you have a
struct that contains a ref type such as a string? Is the struct still
a value type? Or is it now stored in heap space?
Brette.Net
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The struct instance is stored in the stack. The reference type instance is
stored in the heap. The struct only contains a reference to the actual
instance.
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HTH,
Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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FTP Client Classes, Enhanced Data Controls, much more.
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Hey All,
This may be a simple one but I thought I would throw it out there
because I can't find an answer. Structures are value types as we know.
Thus they are stored on the stack. What happenes though, if you have a
struct that contains a ref type such as a string? Is the struct still
a value type? Or is it now stored in heap space?
Brette.Net
On Aug 1, 1:36 pm, Brette....@gmail.com wrote:
This may be a simple one but I thought I would throw it out there
because I can't find an answer. Structures are value types as we know.
Thus they are stored on the stack.
No - that's a myth. The struct will be stored on the stack *if* it's a
local variable, or an instance variable of another value on the stack.
If it's an instance variable of a class, the value will be on the
heap.
What happenes though, if you have a
struct that contains a ref type such as a string? Is the struct still
a value type? Or is it now stored in heap space?
The struct is still a value type, and it contains a reference.
See http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html
Jon
On Aug 1, 8:20 am, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@pobox.comwrote:
On Aug 1, 1:36 pm, Brette....@gmail.com wrote:
This may be a simple one but I thought I would throw it out there
because I can't find an answer. Structures are value types as we know.
Thus they are stored on the stack.
No - that's a myth. The struct will be stored on the stack *if* it's a
local variable, or an instance variable of another value on the stack.
If it's an instance variable of a class, the value will be on the
heap.
What happenes though, if you have a
struct that contains a ref type such as a string? Is the struct still
a value type? Or is it now stored in heap space?
The struct is still a value type, and it contains a reference.
Seehttp://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/memory.html
Jon
Great that makes sense!
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