[swift-users] How to malloc in Swift 3

[Quinn "The Eskimo!"]

On 23 Sep 2016, at 11:29, Gerriet M. Denkmann via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org> wrote:

> What about calloc then? Or use allocate and do a memset afterwards?

For trivial data types (like UInt8) this will work, but if you want to follow the rules I recommend reading the following:

* UnsafeRawPointer Migration

<https://swift.org/migration-guide/se-0107-migrate.html>

* SE-0107 “UnsafeRawPointer API”

<https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0107-unsaferawpointer.md>

Spoiler: that’ll point you to `initialize(to:count:)` (-:

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Also, why are you manually allocating this rather than using [UInt8]?  The latter is easier, safer, and likely to have similar levels of efficiency.

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