array of blittable struct is not pinned

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According to Blittable and Non-Blittable Types(Blittable and Non-Blittable Types), an array of a blittable type is blittable, and a struct that contains only blittable types is also blittable. So an array of blittable struct should be blittable too. So it should be pinned instead of copied when passed to native code via interop.

But check this question(Array of blittable struct not pinned when marshaling?) on StackOverflow. the memory address of the struct certainly changes when being marshaled.

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