Default allocator for Swift

[Martin (Martin R)]

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UnsafeMutablePointer allocation compatibility with C malloc/free

Are the allocate() and deallocate() methods of UnsafeMutablePointer “compatible” with the C memory management functions malloc() and free()? Concretely: Would the following be safe? if let ptr = someCFunctionReturningAMallocedPointer() { // The C function returns the result of a `malloc()` call // ... ptr.deallocate() } Or this? let ptr = UnsafeMutablePointer<CChar>.allocate(capacity: 1024) someCFunctionExpectingAMallocedPointer(ptr) // The C function calls `free(ptr)` eventuall…