Passing an Array of Strings From Swift to C

Ole Begemann:

The type checker allows you to pass a String value to an UnsafePointer<Int8> or UnsafePointer<UInt8> parameter. When you do that, the compiler will transparently create a buffer containing the UTF-8-encoded, null-terminated string, and pass a pointer to that buffer to the function.

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However, some C functions take an array of strings (a char ** or char *[]), and there is no built-in support in Swift for passing a [String] to a char ** parameter.

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The full type of the strlen function as imported by Swift looks like this[…]

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