is there anyway to get a `ByteArray` backed by native C memory without a copy in Kotlin/Native?

# kotlin-native

[Aaron Todd]

is there anyway to get a ByteArray backed by native C memory without a copy in Kotlin/Native?

[Dominaezzz]

It is. What are you trying to achieve? Have you tried usePinned ?

[travis]

usePinned is the common example, but it involves a memory copy.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/58521109

Wondering if there is something similar to Javascript interop (whereas a ByteArray is transparently mapped to a Javascript Int8Array)?

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-to-kotlin-interop.html#representing-kotlin-types-in-javascript

[Aaron Todd]

was mostly just trying to avoid a copy (and was curious if I was missing something). Something like JNI DirectByteBuffers. I think I can achieve what I want though by just introducing a Buffer interface and then wrap the native memory. Little more work but should achieve what I want.