[swift-dev] What exactly does it mean for a Swift pointer to be initialized?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Aug 05 2016, Jens Persson <swift-dev-AT-swift.org> wrote:

> I'm trying to understand the new Swift 3 (4?) pointer API and Swift's
> memory model.
>
> More specifically, I'd like to know more about what exactly it means for a
> pointer to be initialized or not.

Sorry to pick nits, but...  every pointer that exists is already
initialized.  What you're asking about, I think, is whether the *memory
referenced by the pointer* is initialized.

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-Dave