[swift-evolution] Evolving UnsafeMutablePointer.alloc (was Re: [Review] SE-0006 Apply API Guidelines to the Standard Library)

[Chris Lattner]

> On Jan 23, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Joe Groff via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 11:38 AM, T.J. Usiyan <griotspeak at gmail.com <mailto:griotspeak at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> I agree that the need to immediately wrap in a BufferPointer is awkward. I've been consistently thrown by the fact that we specify how many items to allocate on the 'single' pointers, though.
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> Definitely. It would make sense to me if UnsafeMutablePointer's allocation and deallocation APIs worked only for single values, and UnsafeMutableBufferPointer provided similar APIs to allocate and deallocate arrays.

I agree, that makes a lot of sense.

-Chris

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