// "Why," you may ask, "is it that I'm using the same P/Invokes for UnsafePointer and UnsafeMutablePointer?"
// Because it's just pointer arithmetic. The difference between them is that UnsafeMutablePointer has set methods.
// The actual representation is identical: a pointer
public UnsafePointer <T> Advance(nint by)
{
var retval = new UnsafePointer <T> ();
unsafe
{
fixed(byte *ptr = SwiftData)
{
var actualPtr = Marshal.ReadIntPtr(new IntPtr(ptr));
fixed(byte *retvalPtr = StructMarshal.Marshaler.PrepareNominal(retval))
{
NativeMethodsForUnsafeMutablePointer.Advance(new IntPtr(retvalPtr), actualPtr, by, StructMarshal.Marshaler.Metatypeof(typeof(T)));
}
}
}
return(retval);
}
public UnsafePointer(UnsafePointer <T> ptr)
: this(ptr.ToIntPtr())
{
}
public static OpaquePointer FromUnsafePointer <T> (UnsafePointer <T> ptr)
{
return(new OpaquePointer(ptr.ToIntPtr()));
}
