Protocolswift 6.0.1Swift

    CVarArg

    A type whose instances can be encoded, and appropriately passed, as elements of a C va_list.

    protocol CVarArg
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    You use this protocol to present a native Swift interface to a C “varargs” API. For example, a program can import a C API like the one defined here:

    int c_api(int, va_list arguments)

    To create a wrapper for the c_api function, write a function that takes CVarArg arguments, and then call the imported C function using the withVaList(_:_:) function:

    func swiftAPI(_ x: Int, arguments: CVarArg...) -> Int {
    return withVaList(arguments) { c_api(x, $0) }
}

    Swift only imports C variadic functions that use a va_list for their arguments. C functions that use the ... syntax for variadic arguments are not imported, and therefore can’t be called using CVarArg arguments.

    If you need to pass an optional pointer as a CVarArg argument, use the Int(bitPattern:) initializer to interpret the optional pointer as an Int value, which has the same C variadic calling conventions as a pointer on all supported platforms.