Incorrectly aligned or overlapped by a non-object field error

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The CF Marshaler isn’t so good at this type of thing and what you’re attempting is unsupported. The problem is that it knows that the first element is unaligned, but it seems to not understand that each element in the array would also be unaligned.

You can see the behavior works in this example:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Size = 14)]
public struct Message
{
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public ushort X;

    [FieldOffset(2)]
    private ushort Y1;

    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPArray)]
    [FieldOffset(4)]
    private ushort[] Y2;

    [FieldOffset(12)]
    public ushort Z;
}

For this type of structure, I never let the marshaler try to handle each of the members anyway. The structure is small, so break out each individual item like this:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Size = 14)]
public struct Message
{
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public ushort X;

    [FieldOffset(2)]
    private ushort Y1;

    [FieldOffset(4)]
    private ushort Y2;

    [FieldOffset(6)]
    private ushort Y3;

    [FieldOffset(8)]
    private ushort Y4;

    [FieldOffset(10)]
    private ushort Y5;

    [FieldOffset(12)]
    public ushort Z;
}

or use a simulated “union” like this:

public struct Y
{
    public ushort a;
    public ushort b;
    public ushort c;
    public ushort d;
    public ushort e;
}

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit, Size = 14)]
public struct Message
{
    [FieldOffset(0)]
    public ushort X;

    [FieldOffset(2)]
    private Y Y;

    [FieldOffset(12)]
    public ushort Z;
}

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