Topics tagged pointers

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Presumably unsafe `withUnsafeMutablePointer` usage pattern Using Swift pointers , unsafe	1	77	January 22, 2026
How a ptrauth blend constant is calculated for Swift methods? Compiler pointers , authentication , llvm-ir	2	192	November 27, 2025
How to think properly about binding memory Using Swift memory-safety , pointers , unsafe , binding	4	468	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	197	August 29, 2025
Classes, stored properties, pointer conversion and address stability Using Swift pointers	5	258	December 5, 2024
Determine origin of a SwiftPM Dependency Package Manager pointers	2	216	December 2, 2024
[Unsafe Pointers] Which is the expected behavior? Crash or not? Using Swift pointers	6	275	October 14, 2024
Does UnsafePointer create a weak reference to the referenced object? Using Swift pointers , arc	17	610	October 9, 2024
Create a nonnull UnsafeRawPointer of underlying rawValue 0 Using Swift pointers	9	279	October 8, 2024
Raw Pointer Address Using Swift c , pointers	0	164	September 23, 2024
Can we still not mix Swift and C in a module? Using Swift pointers	4	375	July 21, 2024
Struct Memory Layout Standard Library pointers , structs , memorylayout	13	1733	June 2, 2024
Questions about raw and typed pointers and generic Using Swift generics , pointers , unsafe	5	508	February 7, 2024
Inconsistent treatment bewtween Swift pointer parameters and C ones Using Swift c-interop , pointers , inout	6	420	February 6, 2024
Accessing address of a C global const variable - cannot pass immutable value as inout argument Using Swift swift , c , pointers	7	602	January 16, 2024
Documentation question for UnsafeMutablePointer Standard Library documentation , pointers	3	794	October 24, 2023
[Pitch] Restrict pointer conversion to C interoperability Pitches c-interop , pointers	21	2192	August 10, 2023
Pointers to Never Using Swift control-flow , pointers	12	1073	May 31, 2023
Referencing memory via a variety of Arrays Using Swift array , pointers	1	895	April 23, 2023
Why is `UnsafeBufferPointer`'s `baseAddress` optional? Discussion pointers	69	4841	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	4633	February 2, 2023
How do I initialize a C struct from a Data object? Using Swift c-interop , pointers	6	1776	January 1, 2023
Dangling pointer from array Using Swift pointers	4	1482	November 25, 2022
Help me diagnose inconsistent test failures on unsafe code Using Swift xctest , pointers , unsafe	0	425	September 28, 2022
SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Proposal Reviews pointers	35	3070	August 31, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0370: Pointer family initialization improvements and better buffer slices Announcements pointers	0	1079	August 31, 2022
SE-0349: Unaligned loads and stores from raw memory Proposal Reviews pointers	11	2734	April 14, 2022
[Accepted] SE-0349: Unaligned loads and stores from raw memory Announcements pointers	0	1134	April 14, 2022
What's the proper way to assign a UnsafeMutablePointer<OpaquePointer> Using Swift pointers	8	3624	February 16, 2022
Inconsistent reference counting of UnsafeMutablePointer Using Swift copy-on-write , pointers	5	1582	December 24, 2021