Date: 08/05/10 (C Sharp) Keywords: linux I am using Mono on Linux, and want to marshal the following unmanaged structure to a native one: According to Mono's excellent page on native-library interop, the way to deal with unions is to use StructLayoutAttribute with LayoutKind.Explicit and specify a FieldOffsetAttribute that is the same for all union members. So you might do something similar to this:The problem however is this, the Mono runtime crashes when this code is run, complaining that: "you cannot have a reference field that is the same offset as another field" in an [ExplicitLayout] structure. I assume this is referring to the last member of the union which is a pointer. Thing is, I'm not sure how else to do this. I thought about just having a "public object value;" member of the structure, and then casting this as appropriate in managed code, but the runtime apparently cannot marshal to a vanilla object this way.Thoughts?
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