I'm seeing some very strange behavior with the GC under C#.  I'm seeing it
in two different applications that have nothing in common except that they
both use and release a lot of memory in BYTE or CHAR arrays.
The first one is easier to describe, but the behavior is similar in both ...

I am curretly porting an open source language www.harbour-project.org to
.NET.
I have the following IL coding question, hopefully someone may provide me
some guidance: