Question

I have a managed class which contains unmanaged class pointer:

class Managed { public IntPtr ptr; };

c++ function which takes a pointer as parameter:

void foo(void *ptr);

should i pin this Managed object before calling the unmanaged function?

calling code:

Managed obj = new Managed;
foo(obj.ptr);

Answer 1

I don’t see why you’d need to pin it – even if the GC moves obj itself, the value of obj.ptr shouldn’t be affected – and obj.ptr is passed to your C++ code by value, so it’s not like the C++ code can try to change the contents of obj.