duplicates:

• SR-11147 Add withUnsafeBufferPointer<T: HomogeneousAggregate, Result>

relates to:

• SR-4929 Support non-inout homogeneous tuple argument conversion to UnsafePointer

Issue Description:

For convenience add implicit casting from a tuple address to an unsafe pointer to its elements.

This is a natural thing to do and should not require dropping down to a raw pointer and rebinding memory.
See SR-2471.

Example use case:

import Foundation

var bytes: (CChar, CChar, CChar, CChar) = (0x61, 0x62, 0x63, 0)
let name: String = withUnsafePointer(to: &bytes) {
  (ptr: UnsafePointer<CChar>) -> String in
  return String(utf8String: ptr)!
}