Size of a referenc in C#?

[NoteMe]

Say that I do something like this on a Win XP 32bit machine in Visual Studio 03/05:

MyClass object1 = new MyClass();
MyClass object2 = object1;

how much memory does object2 use? 32bit? Or does it hold RTTI info and more too?


Thanks
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[NoteMe]

I am not sure if I belive in it, but this is what I have found so far:


http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/4705/

(On the 32-bit version of .NET, for instance, a reference type variable's slot is always just 4 bytes.)

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[moinkhan]

as the reference is a pointer to the address of the object.. it should be 32-bit for 32-bit platforms.

[NoteMe]

So what makes it type safe? Isn't there any RTTI info stored? How does it know it is of type MyClass, and not an other type of pointer?


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