만약 hasko의 대답이 안전하지 않은 경우에는 포인터를 C#으로 사용하는 것이 안전하지 않은 경우가 있습니다. 다음과 같은 팁과 함정이 있습니다.
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
// Use LayoutKind.Sequential to prevent the CLR from reordering your fields.
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
unsafe struct MeshDesc
{
public byte NameLen;
// Here fixed means store the array by value, like in C,
// though C# exposes access to Name as a char*.
// fixed also requires 'unsafe' on the struct definition.
public fixed char Name[16];
// You can include other structs like in C as well.
public Matrix Transform;
public uint VertexCount;
// But not both, you can't store an array of structs.
//public fixed Vector Vertices[512];
}
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
unsafe struct Matrix
{
public fixed float M[16];
}
// This is how you do unions
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
unsafe struct Vector
{
[FieldOffset(0)]
public fixed float Items[16];
[FieldOffset(0)]
public float X;
[FieldOffset(4)]
public float Y;
[FieldOffset(8)]
public float Z;
}
class Program
{
unsafe static void Main(string[] args)
{
var mesh = new MeshDesc();
var buffer = new byte[Marshal.SizeOf(mesh)];
// Set where NameLen will be read from.
buffer[0] = 12;
// Use Buffer.BlockCopy to raw copy data across arrays of primitives.
// Note we copy to offset 2 here: char's have alignment of 2, so there is
// a padding byte after NameLen: just like in C.
Buffer.BlockCopy("Hello!".ToCharArray(), 0, buffer, 2, 12);
// Copy data to struct
Read(buffer, out mesh);
// Print the Name we wrote above:
var name = new char[mesh.NameLen];
// Use Marsal.Copy to copy between arrays and pointers to arrays.
unsafe { Marshal.Copy((IntPtr)mesh.Name, name, 0, mesh.NameLen); }
// Note you can also use the String.String(char*) overloads
Console.WriteLine("Name: " + new string(name));
// If Erik Myers likes it...
mesh.VertexCount = 4711;
// Copy data from struct:
// MeshDesc is a struct, and is on the stack, so it's
// memory is effectively pinned by the stack pointer.
// This means '&' is sufficient to get a pointer.
Write(&mesh, buffer);
// Watch for alignment again, and note you have endianess to worry about...
int vc = buffer[100] | (buffer[101] << 8) | (buffer[102] << 16) | (buffer[103] << 24);
Console.WriteLine("VertexCount = " + vc);
}
unsafe static void Write(MeshDesc* pMesh, byte[] buffer)
{
// But byte[] is on the heap, and therefore needs
// to be flagged as pinned so the GC won't try to move it
// from under you - this can be done most efficiently with
// 'fixed', but can also be done with GCHandleType.Pinned.
fixed (byte* pBuffer = buffer)
*(MeshDesc*)pBuffer = *pMesh;
}
unsafe static void Read(byte[] buffer, out MeshDesc mesh)
{
fixed (byte* pBuffer = buffer)
mesh = *(MeshDesc*)pBuffer;
}
}