From 0a6485e024cb2512612927417f7d91c81552f7d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lwouis <lwouis@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2026 23:42:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: small memory leak when opening the switcher (closes
 #4255)

---
 src/api-wrappers/AXUIElement.swift | 8 +++-----
 src/logic/Applications.swift       | 8 +++-----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/api-wrappers/AXUIElement.swift b/src/api-wrappers/AXUIElement.swift
index 35cf72d0..7deac923 100644
--- a/src/api-wrappers/AXUIElement.swift
+++ b/src/api-wrappers/AXUIElement.swift
@@ -193,12 +193,10 @@ extension AXUIElement {
 
     func unboxAxValue<T>(_ attributeValue: Any, _ axType: AXValueType, as _: T.Type = T.self) -> T? {
         let axValue = unsafeDowncast(attributeValue as CFTypeRef, to: AXValue.self)
-        let result = UnsafeMutablePointer<T>.allocate(capacity: 1)
-        defer { result.deallocate() }
-        guard AXValueGetValue(axValue, axType, result) else {
-            return nil
+        return withUnsafeTemporaryAllocation(of: T.self, capacity: 1) { buffer in
+            guard AXValueGetValue(axValue, axType, buffer.baseAddress!) else { return nil }
+            return buffer[0]
         }
-        return result.pointee
     }
 
     /// we combine both the normal approach and brute-force to get all possible windows
diff --git a/src/logic/Applications.swift b/src/logic/Applications.swift
index a127f279..ae8cb941 100644
--- a/src/logic/Applications.swift
+++ b/src/logic/Applications.swift
@@ -36,12 +36,10 @@ class Applications {
     static func removeZombieWindows() {
         let wIds = Windows.list.compactMap { $0.cgWindowId }
         guard !wIds.isEmpty else { return }
-        let values = UnsafeMutablePointer<UnsafeRawPointer?>.allocate(capacity: wIds.count)
-        for (i, id) in wIds.enumerated() {
-            values[i] = UnsafeRawPointer(bitPattern: UInt(id))
+        let rawIds: CFArray = wIds.map { UnsafeRawPointer(bitPattern: UInt($0)) }.withUnsafeBufferPointer {
+            CFArrayCreate(nil, UnsafeMutablePointer(mutating: $0.baseAddress), $0.count, nil)
         }
-        let rawIds = CFArrayCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, values, wIds.count, nil)
-        let descriptions = (CGWindowListCreateDescriptionFromArray(rawIds) as? [[CFString: Any]])
+        let descriptions = CGWindowListCreateDescriptionFromArray(rawIds) as? [[CFString: Any]]
         let existingWids = descriptions?.compactMap { $0[kCGWindowNumber] } as? [CGWindowID]
         guard let existingWids else { return }
         let believedAlive = Set(wIds)