It would be nice to have a function that produces a `Pointer` from a `ByteArray`. I’m unsure whether...

# webassembly

[jessewilson]

It would be nice to have a function that produces a Pointer from a ByteArray. I’m unsure whether this is possible with WASM GC.
Alternately it’d be nice to view a Pointer as a ByteArray.

[Svyatoslav Kuzmich [JB]]

It is not possible in Wasm as these live in a separate memory spaces: linear memory and GC memory. Pointers and GC references are different types in Wasm and require different read/write instructions.

However, we plan to add helper functions to simplify copying data between Pointer memory and ByteArray.

[jessewilson]

Got it. It needs something like usePinned() from Kotlin/Native