Why would you ever use toCValues instead of refTo ...

# kotlin-native

[Eamonn Boyle]

Why would you ever use toCValues instead of refTo since toCValues is so slow?

[olonho]

they are different, toCValues creates layout expected by C, while refTo gets pointer on existing memory with layout expected by C

[Eamonn Boyle]

Yes, but my questions is why does IntArray have toCValues function to create the layout. Why would you not always use the refTo when passing an IntArray into a C function