Dealing with Function Pointers on the Heap

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.class public auto ansi beforefieldinit FunctionPointersClass extends [System.Runtime]System.Object
{
  .field public method instance void*(int32) [] FuncPtrField

  .method public hidebysig specialname rtspecialname instance void .ctor() cil managed
  {
    .maxstack 8
    ldarg.0
    call instance void [System.Runtime]System.Object::.ctor()
    ret
  }

  .method public hidebysig instance void Populate() cil managed
  {
    ldarg.0
    ldc.i4.s 1
    newarr method instance void*(int32)
    stfld method instance void*(int32)[] FunctionPointersClass::FuncPtrField
    ret
  }
}

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cc @davidwrighton who mentioned this after looking at the code.

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cc @jkotas @Maoni0

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Function Pointers appear as IntPtr in Reflection.

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Function pointer arrays can now be seen on the heap.

dotnet/runtime#11354 is needed in the reflection stack.