Question

Is it possible to serialize or deserialize any pointer? Suppose I have a class as follows

  public unsafe class Class001
  {
        public byte* pointer;

        public Class001()
        {

            var byteArr = new byte[] {12, 54, 20};

            fixed(byte* ptr = byteArr)
            {
                pointer = ptr;
            }
         }
   }

Can I store the hex value of pointer in a file and reconstruct it using Reflection by reading the file?

I used the word serialization/deserialization just to denote saving some values in a file and reconstruct it later, it need not to be any standard serialization process.

Answer 1

Absolutely not! A pointer is a reference to a particular memory location. You may indeed serialize the hex value of that particular memory address – but when you deserialize it, that memory address will certainly contain something entirely different.