How can I get the memory address of a value type or a custom struct in Swift?

Question

I\'m trying to gain a deeper understanding of how Swift copies value types:

The behavior you see in your code will always be as if a copy took place. Ho

Answer 1

I'm not sure if there's a "recommended" way to do that, but one method is to use withUnsafePointer(_:_:), like this:

var s: String = "foo"
withUnsafePointer(&s) { NSLog("\($0)") }

This printed 0x00007ffff52a011c8 on my machine.