As of now:
* old APIs are just marked as `deprecated` not `unavaiable`. To make it
easier to co-operate with other toolchain repos.
* Value variant of API is implemented as public @private
`_ofInstance(_:)`.
Changes:
- Added bounds checks to Unsafe*BufferPointer's subscript getter and setter
- Added tests for Unsafe*BufferPointer's subscript getter for all four range types
This documentation revision covers a large number of types & protocols:
String, its views and their indices, the Unicode codec types and protocol,
as well as Character, UnicodeScalar, and StaticString, among others.
This also includes a few small changes across the standard library for
consistency.
Implements SE-0055: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0055-optional-unsafe-pointers.md
- Add NULL as an extra inhabitant of Builtin.RawPointer (currently
hardcoded to 0 rather than being target-dependent).
- Import non-object pointers as Optional/IUO when nullable/null_unspecified
(like everything else).
- Change the type checker's *-to-pointer conversions to handle a layer of
optional.
- Use 'AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer<NSError?>?' as the type of error
parameters exported to Objective-C.
- Drop NilLiteralConvertible conformance for all pointer types.
- Update the standard library and then all the tests.
I've decided to leave this commit only updating existing tests; any new
tests will come in the following commits. (That may mean some additional
implementation work to follow.)
The other major piece that's missing here is migration. I'm hoping we get
a lot of that with Swift 1.1's work for optional object references, but
I still need to investigate.
The preferred way to create a nil pointer is to use the 'nil' literal.
Affected types:
AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer
OpaquePointer
UnsafeMutablePointer
UnsafePointer
At DaveA's suggestion, I took a mostly mechanical approach to this:
pointers and numeric types start using += 1, and indexes use
i = i.successor(). The index model is likely to be revised in
Swift 3 anyway, so micro-optimizing this code syntactically isn't
super important.
There is some performance concern of this patch, since some
in-place succesor operations are more efficient than
i = i.successor(). The one that seems particularly at issue is the
instance in the implementation of partition(), which I changed to
use i._successorInPlace(). If other instances lead to a perf issue,
they can be changed to use that as well.
