What is the reasoning behind <https://kotlinlang.o...

# kotlin-native

[Andreas Scheja]

What is the reasoning behind https://kotlinlang.org/api/core/kotlin-stdlib/kotlinx.cinterop/get.html returning the numeric types directly vs everything else wrapped in its CVariable wrapper? see 🧵

[Andreas Scheja]

i.e. if I have two arrays like

val bools = allocArray<BooleanVar>(count)
val ints = allocArray<IntVar>(count)

where I want to pass a single element each to a function

fun foo(bar: BooleanVar, baz: IntVar)

I can just use the default version of operator fun <reified T : CVariable> CPointer<T>.get(index: Int): T for bar (returning BooleanVar),
while with foo I end up with operator fun <T : Int> CPointer<IntVarOf<T>>.get(index: Int): T (returning Int). So instead of having a call like

foo(bools[index], ints[index])

I end up with something like

foo(bools[index], (ints + index)!!.pointed)

To me this feels very inconsistent?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

FWIW you can do ints.get<IntVar>(index)