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title: "Discussion on \"Decompiling fixed: pinned locals, the null-or-empty array guard, and GetPinnableReference\" | Hashnode"
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# [Decompiling fixed: pinned locals, the null-or-empty array guard, and GetPinnableReference](https://delta1labs.hashnode.dev/decompiling-fixed-pinned-locals-the-null-or-empty-array-guard-and-getpinnablereference?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

fixed is the smallest piece of syntax in C#'s unsafe toolkit and one of the more interesting things to find in IL, because almost nothing of it survives. There is no fixed opcode. There is no pinned i

1d ago · 15 min read · delta1labs.hashnode.dev  
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