If I pin a member of a garbage collected structure, can I safely assume
that the entire struct is pinned?
I use something like that: (new whidbey syntax, but that shouldn't make
a difference):
[StructLayout(La youtKind::Seque ntial)]
public ref struct MyStruct {
Int32 memberA;
Int16 memberB;
Int32 memberC;
}
....
MyStruct^ struct = gcnew MyStruct();
void* pData = somedata_somwhe re;
//pData points to a memory location,
//that holds data not only about
//memberA but also memberB and memberC
pin_ptr<int> pMemberA = &struct->membera;
memcpy((void*)p MemberA, pData, sizeofdata);
pMemberA = nullptr;
it works but is it correct?
Would it also be correct if i hadn't specified LayoutKind::Seq uential?
Thanks
Ben
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> Would it also be correct if i hadn't specified LayoutKind::Seq uential?
Replying to myself:
Well, since memberA is not guranteed to be the first member in memory, I
suppose it wouldn't be correct to use a pointer to memberA as a pointer
to the struct.
Still, could the GC potentially shift other members around if only one
member is pinned and the LayoutKind is not specified?
I know that when you pin a member of an array, the entire array gets
pinned.
No, pinning any member will pin the entire object. That is a hard guarantee
that the CLI spec makes.
Practically in the current CLR implementation, different parts do not move
independently or get rearranged at all. Future implementations might in fact
start doing this, so you were correct to think of this possibility.
Ronald Laeremans
Visual C++ team
"Ben Schwehn" <b.*******@gmx. net> wrote in message
news:2k******** ****@uni-berlin.de... Would it also be correct if i hadn't specified LayoutKind::Seq uential?
Replying to myself:
Well, since memberA is not guranteed to be the first member in memory, I
suppose it wouldn't be correct to use a pointer to memberA as a pointer to
the struct.
Still, could the GC potentially shift other members around if only one
member is pinned and the LayoutKind is not specified?
I know that when you pin a member of an array, the entire array gets
pinned.
> No, pinning any member will pin the entire object. That is a hard guarantee that the CLI spec makes.
Thanks!
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