pitrou commented on code in PR #39091:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/39091#discussion_r1489223573


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swift/Arrow/Sources/Arrow/ArrowCExporter.swift:
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+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+// distributed with this work for additional information
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+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
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+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+import Foundation
+import ArrowC
+import Atomics
+
+extension String {
+    var cstring: UnsafePointer<CChar> {
+        (self as NSString).cString(using: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)!
+    }
+}
+
+// The memory used by UnsafeAtomic is not automatically
+// reclaimed. Since this value is initialized once
+// and used until the program/app is closed it's
+// memory will be released on program/app exit
+let exportDataCounter: UnsafeAtomic<Int> = .create(0)
+
+public class ArrowCExporter {
+    private class ExportData {
+        let id: Int
+        var cArray = ArrowC.ArrowArray()
+        private let arrowData: ArrowData
+        private(set) var data = [UnsafeRawPointer?]()
+        private(set) var buffers: UnsafeMutablePointer<UnsafeRawPointer?>
+        init(_ arrowData: ArrowData) {
+            id = exportDataCounter.loadThenWrappingIncrement(ordering: 
.relaxed)
+
+            // keep a reference to the ArrowData
+            // obj so the memory doesn't get
+            // deallocated
+            self.arrowData = arrowData
+            for arrowBuffer in arrowData.buffers {
+                data.append(arrowBuffer.rawPointer)
+            }
+
+            self.buffers = UnsafeMutablePointer(mutating: data)
+            ArrowCExporter.exportedData[id] = self
+        }
+
+        func release() {
+            // the data associated with this export data
+            // does not need to be released as they are
+            // still associated with the ArrowBuffer
+            // and it will deallocate this memory

Review Comment:
   The `release` pointer **is** responsible for releasing/deallocating any data 
backing the array.
   If you're doing something different, then you're not respecting the C Data 
Interface's contract.
   
   Which means you probably want to keep the `ArrowBuffer`s stored in 
`ExportData`.



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