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[Paulo Pinto]

Am 19.02.2013 22:59, schrieb rumbu:
> On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 21:30:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 17.02.2013 21:47, schrieb Walter Bright:
>>> On 2/17/2013 1:46 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>>> The world is split into native code, PVM, JVM, JavaScript/ECMAScript. D
>>>> only really has a play in one of these, and needs to get real traction
>>>> there first before looking for new lands to conquer. Else it risks
>>>> being
>>>> seen as a solution looking for a problem to solve.
>>>
>>> I agree. There was at one time a D implementation on .net, but it
>>> suffered from .net's lack of support for pointers, which meant that
>>> slices performed poorly.
>>>
>>
>> So how are C++ and C# pointers done in IL ?
>
> There are two kind of pointers in C#: managed and unmanaged. Wrapped in
> a fixed statement (just to tell the garbage collector to keep fixed
> references), C# pointers will behave like any native language pointer.
> This is not the first topic where I read that misconception that slices
> are a problem for IL. From .net 2.0 (9 years ago) there is the
> ArraySegment<T> type doing exactly what D slices do. Also, in C# arrays
> are implicitely convertible to pointers.
 > ...

I know .NET since the early pre-Beta days as my employer at the time, 
had the privilege to be one of the few Microsoft Partners in Portugal 
with access to the technology.

In those days I did some C# <=> C++ integration work by means of Managed 
C++, later superseded by C++/CLI. Hence my question. :)

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Paulo