Comment by kazinator

No it isn't. Chris put his foot in his mouth and went on about how an advantage of garbage collection is that it moves objects. Not all garbage collection moves objects. Garbage collection that does not move objects does not have any such interop problem. Furthermore, even GC that does move objects can avoid that particular interop problem if it simply avoids moving foreign objects. E.g. suppose a foreign object is managed by some gc-heap object of type "foreign pointer". That managing object can be moved during GC, but if the actual foreign pointer doesn't change. If that pointer is all that the foreign code knows about, then there is no problem. Don't give foreign code any pointers to your heap objects and you're good.