How do I trash the GC heap in Mono?

Asked Apr 17 '14 at 23:43

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I am trying to (on purpose) trash the GC heap in Mono, hoping to cause an ExecutionEngineException or a core dump. How can I do this in C#? I don't want to call Marshel or the like.

EDIT: I am perfectly willing to use unsafe code. I have caused a crash but it has always been a NullReferenceException or a StackOverflowException. I want something that safe code could not do.

edited Apr 17 '14 at 23:47

asked Apr 17 '14 at 23:43

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Unless there is a specific bug in your version of Mono related to the GC that allows for this, you cannot do it from within C#. – Eric J. Apr 17 '14 at 23:46
Being able to do this from regular C# would be a huge bug in Mono – Eugen Rieck Apr 17 '14 at 23:46
Not if the code is unsafe. – Demi Apr 17 '14 at 23:47
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... Why do you want to do this? – NWard Apr 18 '14 at 00:12
possible duplicate of [How to simulate a corrupt state exception in .NET 4?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2950130/how-to-simulate-a-corrupt-state-exception-in-net-4) – Hans Passant Apr 18 '14 at 01:25

How do I trash the GC heap in Mono?

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