.net core pinvoke marshalling memory management in linux












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According to the .net framework documentation it uses CoTaskMemAlloc/CoTaskMemFree for parameters marshalling.



The question is how does it work in linux ?
For instance, if I want to allocate memory for an out parameter in my native library, can I just use malloc ?










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    This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

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According to the .net framework documentation it uses CoTaskMemAlloc/CoTaskMemFree for parameters marshalling.



The question is how does it work in linux ?
For instance, if I want to allocate memory for an out parameter in my native library, can I just use malloc ?










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  • 2





    This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

    – Simon Mourier
    Nov 15 '18 at 19:36
















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According to the .net framework documentation it uses CoTaskMemAlloc/CoTaskMemFree for parameters marshalling.



The question is how does it work in linux ?
For instance, if I want to allocate memory for an out parameter in my native library, can I just use malloc ?










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According to the .net framework documentation it uses CoTaskMemAlloc/CoTaskMemFree for parameters marshalling.



The question is how does it work in linux ?
For instance, if I want to allocate memory for an out parameter in my native library, can I just use malloc ?







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    This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

    – Simon Mourier
    Nov 15 '18 at 19:36
















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    This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

    – Simon Mourier
    Nov 15 '18 at 19:36










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This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

– Simon Mourier
Nov 15 '18 at 19:36







This discussion seems to indicate you can forward all CoTaskMemAlloc calls to malloc: github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/19082#issuecomment-407105560 (can't find no official/reference doc, but it comes from Microsoft guys ...)

– Simon Mourier
Nov 15 '18 at 19:36














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