[swift-evolution] Proposal: One-past-end array pointers and convertibility of nil for interaction with C APIs

[Charles Srstka]

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:50 PM, Félix Cloutier via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> The & operator isn't exactly an address-of operator. Does &arr[0] even return a pointer to the inner buffer? When you use & with properties (and possibly with subscripts as well), Swift may create a local, copy the property value to it, pass a pointer to that local, and copy back the output to the property.
> 
> Anyway, you are probably looking for Array.withUnsafe(Mutable?)BufferPointer:
> 
> arr.withUnsafeMutableBufferPointer { foo($0, $0.count) }
> 
> Félix

The comments in the generated header for UnsafeMutablePointer claim that its regular init() method constructs a null pointer. Therefore, I think you should just be able to:

foo(UnsafeMutablePointer<T>(), 0)

Charles

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