Proposed topic or title

Compiler Warning CS8500

Location in table of contents.

https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/compiler-messages/

Reason for the article

Documentation should exist for:

• Compiler Warning CS8500: This takes the address of, gets the size of, or declares a pointer to a managed type

Article abstract

Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed type.

Example

The following sample generates CS8500:

// CS8500.cs (0,0)

// TODO

Relevant searches

• Compiler Error CS0208: Cannot take the address of, get the size of, or declare a pointer to a managed type ('type')
• Compiler Error CS0233: 'identifier' does not have a predefined size, therefore sizeof can only be used in an unsafe context

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