From: "Sean O'Dell" <sean@...[REMOVE_THE_SPAM]>
Date: 2003-09-12T09:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: GC - PLEASE  set me straight

Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
>>You don't need to ALLOC the VALUE though.  You can just make it a
>>regular member of your class and register the &address of it.  When you
>>get the &address of a member variable, it's true location in memory is
>>given, and as far as I know that won't ever change during the lifetime
>>of your object, so you can really just do it like this:
> 
> 
> That need not be true for .net objects. If you hold references to .net
> objects in native code you need to tell the CLR to pin the object.

Heh ... my last MS compiler is from MSVC 4.0, circa 1995.  That hasn't 
been installed in probably 2 years or better, either.

Is there a Wiki I can go edit somewhere to include all these little 
details regarding extensions, etc.?  This stuff has really been tough to 
get a handle on because all the formal documentation I've read in books 
and online is all very simplified, and this stuff bites people in the 
behind, but I've got a good handle on things and I'd really like to find 
a place where I can go insert all this triviata.

Anyone have a URL to a somewhat official Wiki on this topic?

	Sean O'Dell