What are pinned objects?

Question

I am trying to find a memory leak using ants memory profiler, and I\'ve encountered in a new term:

Pinned objects.

Can some one give me a good & simple e

Answer 1

got it from msdn "A pinned object is one that the garbage collector cannot move in memory"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x2tyfybc(VS.71).aspx