My understanding is that there is no mechanism yet to guarantee stack 
allocation for anything.

> On Apr 17, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Karl Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 17 Apr 2017, at 23:18, Michael Ilseman via swift-evolution 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> This is the best approach that I’m aware of. It does bake in an ABI 
>> assumption that the tuple layout will be contiguous and strided/addressable. 
>> Monitor https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-3726 
>> <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-3726> for changes here. Note that you can 
>> also a little more “pure” in a sense if you construct an UnsafeBufferPointer 
>> from your UnsafeRawPointer and operate on that. Currently, the compiler does 
>> not always elide the copy in the getter, see 
>> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4581 <https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-4581>
>> 
> 
> Will the compiler ever optimise an UBP allocation on to the stack? For 
> example, I’ve written plenty of code such as:
> 
> let ptr = UnsafeRawBufferPointer.allocate(count: 128)
> defer { ptr.deallocate(count: 128) }
> 
> ...when interfacing with C APIs. Which is basically the definition of a stack 
> allocation. That would perhaps be the “swiftier” way to do it; to let the 
> compiler determine how to allocate the memory based on what it knows about 
> its expected lifetime.

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