Topics tagged pointers

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
How to think properly about binding memory Using Swift memory-safety , pointers , unsafe , binding	4	325	September 4, 2025
Is it safe to deinitialize() uninitialized memory if it was bound to a trivial type? Using Swift optimizations , pointers , buffer , unsafe	5	154	August 29, 2025
Classes, stored properties, pointer conversion and address stability Using Swift pointers	5	212	December 5, 2024
Determine origin of a SwiftPM Dependency Package Manager pointers	2	170	December 2, 2024
[Unsafe Pointers] Which is the expected behavior? Crash or not? Using Swift pointers	6	242	October 14, 2024
Does UnsafePointer create a weak reference to the referenced object? Using Swift pointers , arc	17	554	October 9, 2024
Create a nonnull UnsafeRawPointer of underlying rawValue 0 Using Swift pointers	9	223	October 8, 2024
Raw Pointer Address Using Swift c , pointers	0	139	September 23, 2024
Can we still not mix Swift and C in a module? Using Swift pointers	4	337	July 21, 2024
Struct Memory Layout Standard Library pointers , structs , memorylayout	13	1598	June 2, 2024
Questions about raw and typed pointers and generic Using Swift generics , pointers , unsafe	5	488	February 7, 2024
Inconsistent treatment bewtween Swift pointer parameters and C ones Using Swift c-interop , pointers , inout	6	384	February 6, 2024
Accessing address of a C global const variable - cannot pass immutable value as inout argument Using Swift swift , c , pointers	7	549	January 16, 2024
Documentation question for UnsafeMutablePointer Standard Library documentation , pointers	3	758	October 24, 2023
[Pitch] Restrict pointer conversion to C interoperability Pitches c-interop , pointers	21	2090	August 10, 2023
Pointers to Never Using Swift control-flow , pointers	12	1018	May 31, 2023
Referencing memory via a variety of Arrays Using Swift array , pointers	1	866	April 23, 2023
Why is `UnsafeBufferPointer`'s `baseAddress` optional? Discussion pointers	69	4708	March 21, 2023
Same-type requirement makes generic parameters 'T' and 'Pointee' equivalent; this is an error in Swift 6 warning Using Swift generics , c , pointers , buffer	2	4512	February 2, 2023
How do I initialize a C struct from a Data object? Using Swift c-interop , pointers	6	1694	January 1, 2023
Dangling pointer from array Using Swift pointers	4	1448	November 25, 2022
Help me diagnose inconsistent test failures on unsafe code Using Swift xctest , pointers , unsafe	0	410	September 28, 2022
SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Proposal Reviews pointers	35	3031	August 31, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Announcements pointers	0	1054	August 31, 2022
SE-0349: Unaligned loads and stores from raw memory Proposal Reviews pointers	11	2695	April 14, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0349: Unaligned loads and stores from raw memory Announcements pointers	0	1120	April 14, 2022
What's the proper way to assign a UnsafeMutablePointer<OpaquePointer> Using Swift pointers	8	3557	February 16, 2022
Inconsistent reference counting of UnsafeMutablePointer Using Swift copy-on-write , pointers	5	1537	December 24, 2021
Stable pointer to a C String literal Using Swift c , static , pointers	11	1886	October 26, 2021
Write to slice of UnsafeMutableBufferPointer Using Swift pointers	5	1638	October 15, 2021