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As we saw earlier, Value Types are allocated on the stack. There are times when they are present on the managed heap. For instance, when a method takes a System::Object (the mother of all managed types) as the parameter for, say, printing the contents, an object is allocated on the heap with the value of the Value Type copied to it. This process is called boxing.
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Ragunathan, V. (2016). Boxing/Unboxing. In: C++/CLI Primer. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2367-3_12
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