File: src\System\Object.CoreCLR.cs
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// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
 
namespace System
{
    public partial class Object
    {
        // Returns a Type object which represent this object instance.
        [Intrinsic]
        [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
        public extern Type GetType();
 
        // Returns a new object instance that is a memberwise copy of this
        // object.  This is always a shallow copy of the instance. The method is protected
        // so that other object may only call this method on themselves.  It is intended to
        // support the ICloneable interface.
        [Intrinsic]
        protected internal unsafe object MemberwiseClone()
        {
            object clone = this;
            RuntimeHelpers.AllocateUninitializedClone(ObjectHandleOnStack.Create(ref clone));
            Debug.Assert(clone != this);
 
            // copy contents of "this" to the clone
 
            nuint byteCount = RuntimeHelpers.GetRawObjectDataSize(clone);
            ref byte src = ref this.GetRawData();
            ref byte dst = ref clone.GetRawData();
 
            if (RuntimeHelpers.GetMethodTable(clone)->ContainsGCPointers)
                Buffer.BulkMoveWithWriteBarrier(ref dst, ref src, byteCount);
            else
                SpanHelpers.Memmove(ref dst, ref src, byteCount);
 
            return clone;
        }
    }
}