{"id":9467,"date":"2014-09-03T16:36:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2014-09-03T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T20:36:38","slug":"swift-memory-dumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/03\/swift-memory-dumping\/","title":{"rendered":"Swift Memory Dumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2014-08-29-swift-memory-dumping.html\">Mike Ash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.mikeash.com\/pyblog\/friday-qa-2014-08-29-swift-memory-dumping.html\"><p>This is far from normal or sane Swift code, but it works and the results are really useful. It&rsquo;s also a great example of how Swift lets you interact with all sorts of low-level C calls without much more of a fuss than it takes to call them from C. Although you should probably avoid these shenanigans when you can, the fact that you can do stuff like <code>unsafeBitCast<\/code> and get pointers to the internal storage of arrays is really handy when you need it.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Ash: This is far from normal or sane Swift code, but it works and the results are really useful. It&rsquo;s also a great example of how Swift lets you interact with all sorts of low-level C calls without much more of a fuss than it takes to call them from C. Although you should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71,901,943],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language","tag-swift-runtime"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}