Topics tagged pointers

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
[Discussion] Bag of Bytes Types Discussion data , pointers , bytes	33	2301	July 3, 2026
Is ~Escapable + ~Copyable sufficient to safely scope an UnsafeMutablePointer lifetime? Using Swift pointers , noncopyable , nonescaping	0	138	April 21, 2026
Is it safe to keep a span alive and use its pointer across a suspension? Using Swift pointers , span	4	311	March 18, 2026
Presumably unsafe `withUnsafeMutablePointer` usage pattern Using Swift pointers , unsafe	1	126	January 22, 2026
How a ptrauth blend constant is calculated for Swift methods? Compiler pointers , authentication , llvm-ir	2	258	November 27, 2025
How to think properly about binding memory Using Swift memory-safety , pointers , unsafe , binding	4	597	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	291	August 29, 2025
Classes, stored properties, pointer conversion and address stability Using Swift pointers	5	349	December 5, 2024
Determine origin of a SwiftPM Dependency Package Manager pointers	2	279	December 2, 2024
[Unsafe Pointers] Which is the expected behavior? Crash or not? Using Swift pointers	6	335	October 14, 2024
Does UnsafePointer create a weak reference to the referenced object? Using Swift pointers , arc	17	703	October 9, 2024
Create a nonnull UnsafeRawPointer of underlying rawValue 0 Using Swift pointers	9	362	October 8, 2024
Raw Pointer Address Using Swift c , pointers	0	192	September 23, 2024
Can we still not mix Swift and C in a module? Using Swift pointers	4	435	July 21, 2024
Struct Memory Layout Standard Library pointers , structs , memorylayout	13	1904	June 2, 2024
Questions about raw and typed pointers and generic Using Swift generics , pointers , unsafe	5	561	February 7, 2024
Inconsistent treatment bewtween Swift pointer parameters and C ones Using Swift c-interop , pointers , inout	6	468	February 6, 2024
Accessing address of a C global const variable - cannot pass immutable value as inout argument Using Swift swift , c , pointers	7	662	January 16, 2024
Documentation question for UnsafeMutablePointer Standard Library documentation , pointers	3	853	October 24, 2023
[Pitch] Restrict pointer conversion to C interoperability Pitches c-interop , pointers	21	2312	August 10, 2023
Pointers to Never Using Swift control-flow , pointers	12	1166	May 31, 2023
Referencing memory via a variety of Arrays Using Swift array , pointers	1	927	April 23, 2023
Why is `UnsafeBufferPointer`'s `baseAddress` optional? Discussion pointers	68	5188	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	4698	February 2, 2023
How do I initialize a C struct from a Data object? Using Swift c-interop , pointers	6	1849	January 1, 2023
Dangling pointer from array Using Swift pointers	4	1652	November 25, 2022
Help me diagnose inconsistent test failures on unsafe code Using Swift xctest , pointers , unsafe	0	450	September 28, 2022
SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Proposal Reviews pointers	34	3259	August 31, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Announcements pointers	0	1111	August 31, 2022
SE-0349: Unaligned loads and stores from raw memory Proposal Reviews pointers	10	2818	April 14, 2022