by reference call to unsafe void** argument

[Francois Vanderseypen]

Context: C# wrapper around Tivoli LDAP C library.

I understand that something like

"public static unsafe void init(void** LDAPObj)"

has to do with a byref call.

Question: How do I have to wrap or call this function?

Note: the init function is a DllImport with the same parameter(s).


Thank you for any help, F.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Francois,

What is LDAPObj?

If I wanted to get around the unsafe call, I would do the following:

public static extern void init(IntPtr LDAPObj)

And then work from there. However, depending on what LDAPObj is, you
might be able to make a more type-safe definition.

Also, if this returns pointers to regular C++ objects, then you won't be
able to use those objects, unless you are doing something else (like
wrapping them in managed code, exposing them through COM, etc, etc).

Hope this helps.