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A reference cycle (or retain cycle) is so named because it indicates a cycle in the object graph: Each arrow indicates one object retaining another (a strong reference). Unless the cycle is broken, the memory for these objects will never be freed. A retain cycle is created when two instances of ...

When interfacing with C APIs, one might want to back off Swift reference counter. Doing so is achieved with unmanaged objects. If you need to supply a type-punned pointer to a C function, use toOpaque method of the Unmanaged structure to obtain a raw pointer, and fromOpaque to recover the original ...