Problem marshaling ippGetStatusString

[Ockham_s_Razor]

I'm having a problem with ippGetStatusString in Vista 64 using VS2008

My code looks like

[

DllImport("ippcoreem64t-5.3.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Ansi)]

[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)]
private static extern string ippGetStatusString( Int32 status);

When I call it

string errorString = ippGetStatusString(33);

The result a crash where the stack unwinds. A try around this code has NO effect.

However if I access the return value via an IntPtr, it all works. Does anyone have anyidea what I am doing wrong? I don't know if my mistake is the marshaling or the ippGetStatusString itself.

Thanks

Working code.

[

DllImport("ippcoreem64t-5.3.dll", CharSet=CharSet.Ansi)] private static extern IntPtr ippGetStatusString( Int32 status);

and access the string by

IntPtr resultPointer = ippGetStatusString(status);

// Search for the null character, find the size and marshal over

int i = 0;

while (true)

{

// Check for the null termination

if (Marshal.ReadByte(resultPointer, i) == 0)

{

Byte[] ba = new Byte;

Marshal.Copy(resultPointer, ba, 0, ba.Length);

return System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(ba);

}

// No, go again

i = i + 1;

}

[Vladimir_Dudnik]

In IPP C# sample we do use code like this:

[DllImport("ippcore-5.3.dll")]
public static extern string ippGetStatusString(IppStatus StsCode);
string s = ippGetStatusString(33);

It is also possible to do marshalling by yourself but in a little bit simplier way

[DllImport("ippcore-5.3.dll")]
public static extern sbyte* ippGetStatusString(IppStatus StsCode);
string s = new string(ippGetStatusString(33));

Regards,
Vladimir