What is an unmanaged heap?
I thought any object based memory that the CLR manages was the managed heap, so why do we talk about an unmanaged heap?
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What is an unmanaged heap?
I thought any object based memory that the CLR manages was the managed heap, so why do we talk about an unmanaged heap?
Imagine you call a Win32 function using P/Invoke, and that allocates some memory using
malloc. The garbage collector has no visibility of that memory – it’s unmanaged.That may or may not be the context in which you’ve heard the term, of course – if you could point us to some examples, we may be able to help you more.