Take the address of a stack based array

Obnox · #1 (**permalink**) April 18th, 2005, 06:10 AM

Consider the following code:

Code:

public unsafe class PointerArray
    {
        private int size;
        private long* pArray;

        public PointerArray(int size)
        {
            this.size = size;
            long* pArray = stackalloc long [size];
            this.pArray = &(pArray);
        }
    }

I want to assign the address of the stack based array to the pointer, using

Code:

this.pArray = &(pArray);

During compile I get the following error message:

Quote:

quote:Cannot implicitly convert type long** to long*

What am I doing wrong? Is there another way of keeping a stack based array within the scope of a class

Thnx!

Obnox · #2 (**permalink**) April 21st, 2005, 08:12 AM

I solved the problem myself however not completely satisfied. Here's wy: I've changed the code to:

Code:

    public unsafe class PointerArray
    {
        private int size;
        public long* pArray;

        public PointerArray(int size)
        {
            this.size = size;
        }
    }

Now, I use the pArray as a field, rather than a property. Obviously I have to make it public, which is the exact fact that i do not like this solution. However it does work, the only thing I need to do after instantiating the class is assign a pointer reference to the property like this:

Code:

int size = 10
long* pArray = stackalloc long [size];
PointerArray pa = new PointerArray(size);
pa.pArray = pArray;

Note also that I do not assign the address anymore but simply assign the reference.

I'm a bit mixed up on this topick. Can anyone help with a proper solution?

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