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<h1>GC Handles</h1>
<h3>Synopsys</h3>
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<p />GC handles are wrappers that are used to keep references to
managed objects in the unmanaged space and preventing the
object from being disposed.
<p />These are the C equivalents of the <tt>System.GCHandle</tt>
structure.
<p />There are two kinds of GCHandles that can be created:
<ul>
<li>Handles to objects (use <tt><a href="#api:mono_gchandle_new">mono_gchandle_new</a></tt>).
<li>Weak handles to objects (use <tt><a href="#api:mono_gchandle_new_weakref">mono_gchandle_new_weakref</a></tt>).
Weak handles can have the objects reclaimed by the
garbage collector.
</li></li></ul>
<p />To retrieve the target address of an object pointed to by a
<tt>GCHandle</tt> you should use
<tt>mono_gchandle_get_target</tt>.
<p />For example, consider the following C code:
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static MonoObject* o = NULL;
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<p />The object in `o' will *NOT* be scanned.
<p />If you need to store an object in a C variable and prevent
it from being collected, you need to acquire a GC handle for
it.
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guint32 handle = mono_gchandle_new (my_object, TRUE);
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<p />TRUE means the object will be pinned, so it won't move in
memory when we'll use a moving GC. You can access the
MonoObject* referenced by a handle with:
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MonoObject* obj = mono_gchandle_get_target (handle);
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<p />When you don't need the handle anymore you need to call:
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mono_gchandle_free (handle);
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<p />Note that if you assign a new object to the C var, you need
to get a new handle, it's not enough to store a new object in
the C var.
<p />So code that looked like this:
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static MonoObject* obj = NULL;
...
obj = mono_object_new (...);
// use obj
...
// when done to allow the GC to collect obj
obj = NULL;
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<p />should now be changed to:
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static guint32 o_handle;
...
MonoObject *obj = mono_object_new (...);
o_handle = mono_gchandle_new (obj, TRUE);
// use o or mono_gchandle_get_target (o_handle)
...
// when done to allow the GC to collect obj
mono_gchandle_free (o_handle);
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<a name="api:mono_gchandle_new"></a>
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<div class="mapi-entry "><code>mono_gchandle_new</code></div>
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<div class="mapi-declaration mapi-section">Syntax</div>
<div class="mapi-prototype">guint32
mono_gchandle_new_internal (MonoObject *obj, gboolean pinned)
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<p />
<div class="mapi-section">Parameters</div>
<table class="mapi-parameters"><tbody><tr><td><i>obj</i></td><td> managed object to get a handle for</td></tr><tr><td><i>pinned</i></td><td> whether the object should be pinned</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mapi-section">Return value</div>
<div> a handle that can be used to access the object from
unmanaged code.</div>
<div class="mapi-section">Description</div>
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<p />
This returns a handle that wraps the object, this is used to keep a
reference to a managed object from the unmanaged world and preventing the
object from being disposed.
<p />
If <i>pinned</i> is false the address of the object can not be obtained, if it is
true the address of the object can be obtained. This will also pin the
object so it will not be possible by a moving garbage collector to move the
object.
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<div class="mapi-entry "><code>mono_gchandle_new_weakref</code></div>
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<div class="mapi-declaration mapi-section">Syntax</div>
<div class="mapi-prototype">uint32_t
mono_gchandle_new_weakref (MonoObject *obj, mono_bool track_resurrection)
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<p />
<div class="mapi-section">Parameters</div>
<table class="mapi-parameters"><tbody><tr><td><i>obj</i></td><td> managed object to get a handle for</td></tr><tr><td><i>track_resurrection</i></td><td> Determines how long to track the object, if this is set to <code>TRUE</code>, the object is tracked after finalization, if <code>FALSE</code>, the object is only tracked up until the point of finalization.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mapi-section">Return value</div>
<div> a handle that can be used to access the object from
unmanaged code.</div>
<div class="mapi-section">Description</div>
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<p />
This returns a weak handle that wraps the object, this is used to
keep a reference to a managed object from the unmanaged world.
Unlike the <code>mono_gchandle_new_internal</code> the object can be reclaimed by the
garbage collector. In this case the value of the GCHandle will be
set to zero.
<p />
If <i>track_resurrection</i> is <code>TRUE</code> the object will be tracked through
finalization and if the object is resurrected during the execution
of the finalizer, then the returned weakref will continue to hold
a reference to the object. If <i>track_resurrection</i> is <code>FALSE</code>, then
the weak reference's target will become <code>NULL</code> as soon as the object
is passed on to the finalizer.
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<div class="mapi-entry "><code>mono_gchandle_get_target</code></div>
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<div class="mapi-prototype">MonoObject*
mono_gchandle_get_target_internal (guint32 gchandle)
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<p />
<div class="mapi-section">Parameters</div>
<table class="mapi-parameters"><tbody><tr><td><i>gchandle</i></td><td> a GCHandle's handle.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mapi-section">Return value</div>
<div> A pointer to the <code>MonoObject*</code> represented by the handle or
<code>NULL</code> for a collected object if using a weakref handle.</div>
<div class="mapi-section">Description</div>
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<p />
The handle was previously created by calling <code>mono_gchandle_new_internal</code> or
<code>mono_gchandle_new_weakref</code>.
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