Or if you want a `ByteArray`, you can `memcpy` from that `CPointer<ByteVar>`: ```val ptr: CPoi...

# kotlin-native

[Chanjung Kim]

Or if you want a ByteArray, you can memcpy from that `CPointer<ByteVar>`:

val ptr: CPointer<ByteVar> = ...
val byteArray = ByteArray(bufferSize).apply {
  usePinned { pinned ->
    memcpy(pinned.getAddress(0), ptr, bufferSize) 
  }
}

[jw]

ptr.readBytes(bufferSize) will do all that for you and return a ByteArray

[Chanjung Kim]

@jw I'm actually `memcpy`ing for the same scenario but with CharArray, is there a simple method like ptr.readBytes but for CharArray? I can see there is an internal method for that, but not a public one...

[Miroslav Sobotka]

@jw `readBytes`vs memcpy https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C3SGXARS6/p1708074063546239?thread_ts=1708032327.157279&amp;cid=C3SGXARS6