How to make C# application crash with an AccessViolationException

Question

How to intentionally crash an application with an AccessViolationException in c#?

I have a console application that use an unmanaged DLL that eventually crashes because of access violation exceptions. Because of that, I need to intentionally throw an AccessViolationException to test how it behaves under certain circumstances.

Besides that, it must be specifically an AccessViolationException because this exception is not handled by the catch blocks.

Surprisingly, this does not work:

public static void Crash()
{
    throw new AccessViolationException();
}

Neither this:

public static unsafe void Crash()
{
    for (int i = 1; true; i++)
    {
        var ptr = (int*)i;
        int value = *ptr;
    }
}

Answer 1

A Deterministic approach is to have Windows throw it for you:

From Петър Петров's answer to: How to make C# application crash

[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern void RaiseException(uint dwExceptionCode, uint dwExceptionFlags,  uint nNumberOfArguments, IntPtr lpArguments);

void start()
{
    RaiseException(0xC0000005, 0, 0, new IntPtr(1));
}