It depends. You use free and delete to free memory allocated with malloc and new.

但是

在一般的，如果你做一个PInvoke的呼叫，然后指针应该是的IntPtr 。

in general if you do a PInvoke call, then the pointer should be a IntPtr.

如果您使用固定（或的GCHandle ），以获得一个指针的管理对​​象，则内存从GC内存分配

if you use fixed (or GCHandle) to obtain a pointer for a managed object, then the memory was allocated from the GC memory

由.NET收到寄托内存的例子：

Example of pinning memory received by the .NET:

int[] arr = new int[5];

fixed (int* p = arr)
{
    // here arr is fixed in place and it won't be freed/moved by gc
}

// here arr is un-fixed and the GC will manage it

，或几乎相等（但有点不太安全，因为拔除是手工完成的）

or, nearly equivalent (but a little less safe, because the unpinning is done manually)

GCHandle handle = GCHandle.Alloc(arr, GCHandleType.Pinned);

int* p2 = (int*)handle.AddrOfPinnedObject();

// here arr is fixed in place and it won't be freed/moved by gc

handle.Free();
// here arr is un-fixed and the GC will manage it

使用分配从本土池（通过通常使用的COM对象分配器）内存的一些示例 Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem （注意， Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem 要求的Windows CoTaskMemAlloc来的API，这样你就可以同时使用 Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem 和Windows API CoTaskMemFree 来释放它）：

Example of allocating some memory from the "native" pool (through the allocator normally used by COM objects) by using Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem (note that Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem calls the CoTaskMemAlloc of Windows API, so you can use both Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem and the Windows API CoTaskMemFree to free it):

// allocating space for 1000 chars
char* p3 = (char*)Marshal.AllocCoTaskMem(1000 * sizeof(char));

// here you can use p3

// and here you free it
Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem((IntPtr)p3);

或与元帅支持的另一个分配器（这通常是由Windows API的）：

or with another allocator supported by Marshal (this is the one normally used by Windows API):

// allocating space for 1000 chars
char* p4 = (char*)Marshal.AllocHGlobal(1000 * sizeof(char));

// here you can use p4

// and here you free it
Marshal.FreeHGlobal((IntPtr)p4);

让我们假设你有一些本地的code，让你获得一些内存它可以节省一些数据：

Let's say you have some Native code that gives you access to some memory where it saves some data:

static extern IntPtr GetSomeMemoryFromSomeWinApi();

static extern void FreeSomeMemoryFromSomeWinApi(IntPtr ptr);

您使用的是这样的：

IntPtr p5 = GetSomeMemoryFromSomeWinApi();

// here you have some memory received from some native API

// and here you free it
FreeSomeMemoryFromSomeWinApi(p5);

在这种情况下，这是您的图书馆，有给你一个免费方法，因为你不知道内存是如何分配的，但有时你的库的文档会告诉你该内存是通过一个特定的分配器分配，使您在使用这种类型的释放器来释放它，就像

In this case it's your library that has to give you a Free method, because you don't know how the memory was allocated, but sometimes your library's documentation tells you that the memory is allocated through a specific allocator, so you use that type of deallocator to free it, like

Marshal.FreeCoTaskMem(p5);

如果这个API是一些COM对象。

if the API was some COM object.

在元帅类甚至有分配器的 BSTR （使用COM对象统一code字符串。他们有他们的长度pre-吊灯）

The Marshal class even has the allocator for BSTR (Unicode strings used by COM objects. They have their length pre-pendend)

string str = "Hello";
char *bstr = (char*)Marshal.StringToBSTR(str);

Marshal.FreeBSTR((IntPtr)bstr);

他们有特殊的处理，因为他们的真实的起始地址等（BSTR - 2）（他们有一个的Int32 prepended，其长度）

They have special handling because their "real" start address is like (bstr - 2) (they had an Int32 prepended with their length)

的一点是，居然有分配器的沙漠沙粒和满天的星星。他们每个人（除了.NET的标准之一，使用一个新的）都有相应的释放器。他们去像夫妻。他们不混用他人。

The point is that there are as many allocators as the grain of sand of the desert and the stars of the sky. Every one of them (with the exception of the standard one of .NET, the one used by new) has a corresponding deallocator. They go like husband and wife. They don't mix with others.

最后要注意，如果你写混合.NET /本地C或C ++ code，你就必须要揭露一些C / C ++中的方法调用的的 免费 / 删除，因为他们的免费 / 删除是他们的C / C ++库的一部分，该操作系统没有。

As a final note, if you write mixed .NET/native C or C++ code, you'll have to expose some C/C++ methods that call their free/delete, because their free/delete are part of their C/C++ libraries, not of the OS.