static void Main()
{
char[] chars = new StringToChar {
str = constFoo
}.chr;
for (int i = 0; i < constFoo.Length; i++)
{
chars[i] = 'M';
Console.WriteLine(chars[i]); // Always prints "M".
}
Console.WriteLine("FOO"); // x86: Prints "MMM". x64: Prints "FOM".
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
const string test = "ABCDEF"; // Strings are immutable, right?
char[] chars = new StringToChar {
str = test
}.chr;
chars[0] = 'X';
// On an x32 release or debug build or on an x64 debug build,
// the following prints "XBCDEF".
// On an x64 release build, it prints "ABXDEF".
// In both cases, we have changed the contents of 'test' without using
// any 'unsafe' code...
Console.WriteLine(test);
// The following line is even more disturbing, since the constant
// string "ABCDEF" has been mutated too (because the interned 'constant' string was mutated).
Console.WriteLine("ABCDEF");
}