👉 Rust Pointers §

Types §

References §

Rule: Single writer or multiple readers

• Borrowing: &..., e.g. &i32
  • → “borrows” a reference to the variable
  • & mut ...: exclusive reference
    • no other references possible while the exclusive one exists
• Dereference: *..., e.g. *variable
  • → access the value of variable

Boxes §

Simple way to allocate a value to the heap

• Allocation: Box::new(...), e.g. Box::new(x)

Unsafe pointers §

Can be used in unsafe block