Could also cast to an IntPtr and check the Size property, which would return the number of bytes in the pointer?
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.intptr.size%28v=vs.110%29.aspx Might be misunderstanding the issue though. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Zoltan Varga <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > You can check whenever the pointer is aligned by converting it into an > int. > > Zoltan > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Slide <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That's a good point! Can you tell me where in the mono code that the >> unaligned accesses are handled? I'd just like to confirm. >> >> Thanks! >> >> slide >> >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:13 PM Zoltan Varga <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> arm might require aligned reads, i.e. 'p' should be 4 byte aligned in >>> this case. >>> >>> Zoltan >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Slide <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to compile and use the ZeroC Ice remoting library for armhf >>>> to run on my RaPi 2. The compilation goes fine, but when running the test >>>> suite I am getting a NullReferenceException on the pointer assignment in >>>> the following code: >>>> >>>> fixed(byte* p = &_bytes[_position]) >>>> { >>>> *((float*)p) = _valBytes.floatVal; // exception here >>>> } >>>> >>>> This same code works on x86_64, so I am assuming there is something >>>> that is missing in the armhf implementation. >>>> >>>> Is there something I can do to debug what might be missing and provide >>>> a patch? I've never done work on the mono runtime itself. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> slide >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mono-devel-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list >>>> >>>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > -- http://volatile-minds.blogspot.com -- blog http://www.volatileminds.net -- website
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