void* to managed object

[Ernesto Bascón]

Hi everybody:

I am developing an application where I tried to assign a pointer to a
managed object in an unmanaged struct:

void* pUnmanaged;
pUnManaged = (void*) pManaged;

But the compiler did not allow me to do that cast. I read some stuff and I
learned that I cannot reference managed pointers using unmanaged pointers or
viceversa, so I am assigning a GCHandle in my pUnmanaged void pointer:

GCHandle gch = GCHandle::Alloc(pManaged, GCHandleType::Pinned);
pUnmanaged = static_cast<void*>(gch.AddrOfPinnedObject());

That code compiles fine but the following exception is thrown:

"Object contains non-primitive or non-blittable data."

My managed class contains .NET objects and not only primitive types.

Am I doing something wrong here? Can I do what I want to do? How?

Best regards