proper way to pass pointers by reference from managed c++ methods to native c++ methods

[Scott McFadden]

What is the proper way to pass pointers by reference from managed c++ calls
to native c++ calls?

In managed C++, I have a pointer to an array of structures, that I pass to a
native c++ method by reference:

//Managed c++
QueryResult* qr = NULL;
ExecuteQuery(1, "abc", qr); //invoke native c++ method passing qr by
reference

//Native c++
void ExecuteQuery(int queryId, string queryParams, QueryResult*& results)
{
results = (QueryResult*)calloc(1000, sizeof(QueryResults));

//execute query against file system and populate results
}

My problem is that QueryResults is valid / populated in the context of
Native code dll (ExecuteQuery) but upon the return of that call into Managed
C++, the qr / QueryResults param is NULL. Anyone else have this prob?

thanks

sm

[Scott McFadden]

Here is a follow up of what I found. My original test was on Visual Studio
2003 with a mixed mode assembly calling into a native dll. The function in
the native dll allocated the memory to an array of structures as a reference
pointer param. The marshalling of the reference pointer param did not work
on Visual Studio 2003. I tried the same code on Visual Studio 2005 and it
worked flawlessly. So apparently, Visual Studio 2005 has corrected some
marshalling issues found in Visual Studio 2003.
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What is the proper way to pass pointers by reference from managed c++
calls to native c++ calls?

In managed C++, I have a pointer to an array of structures, that I pass to
a native c++ method by reference:

//Managed c++
QueryResult* qr = NULL;
ExecuteQuery(1, "abc", qr); //invoke native c++ method passing qr by
reference

//Native c++
void ExecuteQuery(int queryId, string queryParams, QueryResult*& results)
{
results = (QueryResult*)calloc(1000, sizeof(QueryResults));

//execute query against file system and populate results
}

My problem is that QueryResults is valid / populated in the context of
Native code dll (ExecuteQuery) but upon the return of that call into
Managed C++, the qr / QueryResults param is NULL. Anyone else have this
prob?

thanks

sm