[Mono-dev] Invoking unmanaged code without marshaling

[Rafael Teixeira]

I would not go that route. Have you tried to pin the arrays in managed code
and marshalling just the pointers, using unsafe C# code obviously? It would
do what you want, avoid copying, but with no need to do hard to maintain
hacks... ;-)

Have fun,
Em 02/12/2012 18:12, "Marcelo Zabani" <mzabani at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi everyone, I've been trying to find a way to invoke unmanaged code
> without any marshaling, i.e. by making my unmanaged functions receive
> Mono's objects (or their addresses).
> I've read the Embedding Mono page (a very good one at that) and found that
> if I embed Mono in my application, I could call mono_add_internal_call on
> my unmanaged functions and mark my C# methods with
> [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]; there is a catch in
> my case, however.
> I am not trying to embed Mono in my application, I'm trying to avoid
> marshaling from my "standard" .NET app to my C API calls since my C
> functions deal with large byte arrays all the time, and this implies a
> significant overhead in allocating and copying them. I would much rather
> try pinning the arrays and accessing the underlying C-like array directly
> in some cases (is this possible and is this in Mono's public API?). For
> this reason, I can only run mono_add_internal_call after my managed code
> has already executed, and apparently because of this I'm getting
>
>      Unhandled Exception: System.MissingMethodException: Cannot find the
> requested method.
>
> Is there anyway to achieve what I want?
> This is my first time with Mono's internals and I'm only beginning with
> Interop, so please excuse any stupidities I may be doing.
>
> --
> Marcelo Zabani
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