Since the functions produce pointers with tightly-scoped lifetimes there's no formal reason these have to only work on `inout` things. Now that arguments can be +0, we can even do this without copying values that we already have at +0.
* Make Range conditionally a Collection
* Convert ClosedRange to conditionally a collection
* De-gyb Range/ClosedRange, refactoring some methods.
* Remove use of Countable{Closed}Range from stdlib
* Remove Countable use from Foundation
* Fix test errors and warnings resulting from Range/CountableRange collapse
* fix prespecialize test for new mangling
* Update CoreAudio use of CountableRange
* Update SwiftSyntax use of CountableRange
* Restore ClosedRange.Index: Hashable conformance
* Move fixed typechecker slowness test for array-of-ranges from slow to fast, yay
* Apply Doug's patch to loosen test to just check for error
* Nest various top-level Iterator and Index types, and flatten extensions.
* Fix tests from nesting iterator
* Nest Unsafe*BufferPointer.Iterator, extensionify UnsafeBufferPointer
* Degyb LazyCollection
* Nest Flatten iterator and index
* Eradicate IndexDistance associated type, replacing with Int everywhere
* Consistently use Int for ExistentialCollection’s IndexDistance type.
* Fix test for IndexDistance removal
* Remove a handful of no-longer-needed explicit types
* Add compatibility shims for non-Int index distances
* Test compatibility shim
* Move IndexDistance typealias into the Collection protocol
* Refactor Indices and Slice to use conditional conformance
* Replace ReversedRandomAccessCollection with a conditional extension
* Refactor some types into struct+extensions
* Revise Slice documentation
* Fix test cases for adoption of conditional conformances.
* [RangeReplaceableCollection] Eliminate unnecessary slicing subscript operator.
* Add -enable-experimental-conditional-conformances to test.
* Gruesome workaround for crasher in MutableSlice tests
- Update NSRange -> Range guidance
- Fix example in Optional
- Improve RangeExpression docs
- Fix issue in UnsafeRawBufferPointer.initializeMemory
- Code point -> scalar value most places
- Reposition the dot above the scripty `i'
- Fix ExpressibleByArrayLiteral code sample
- Revisions to unsafeDowncast and withVaList
- Fix the Int64/UInt64 discussion
- Buffer pointer revisions
- Fix Optional example to use new integer methods
- Revise and correct some UnsafeRawBufferPointer docs
- Fix symmetricDifference examples
- Fix wording in FloatingPoint.nextDown
- Update ImplicitlyUnwrappedOptional
- Clarify elementsEqual
- Minor integer doc fixes
- Comment for _AppendKeyPath
- Clarification re collection indices
- Revise RangeExpression.relative(to:)
- Codable revisions
* Give Sequence a top-level Element, constrain Iterator to match
* Remove many instances of Iterator.
* Fixed various hard-coded tests
* XFAIL a few tests that need further investigation
* Change assoc type for arrayLiteralConvertible
* Mop up remaining "better expressed as a where clause" warnings
* Fix UnicodeDecoders prototype test
* Fix UIntBuffer
* Fix hard-coded Element identifier in CSDiag
* Fix up more tests
* Account for flatMap changes
* Add sliceability tests for Unsafe(Raw)BufferPointer.
Improve the generic sliceability tests to verify that SubSequence indices are
compatible with their parents indices.
* Fix and enable testing stdlib Collection instances.
Top-level entry points fully testing a collection instance:
check${Traversal}Collection
One level of recursion into all slices of the collection instance
O(n^2). (Not combinatorial).
Previously, checkCollection() did nothing. So much of the testing infrastructure was inactive. Now it runs all forward collection tests.
Fixes a bug in subscriptRangeTests.
The UnsafeRawBufferPointer and Data collection testing is disabled and
will be fixed in the following commit.
* Give UnsafeRawBufferPointer a distinct slice type.
SubSequence = RandomAccessSlice<Self>
* Fix raw buffer pointer tests after changing the API
* Add UnsafeRawBuffer(rebasing:) initializers.
Allows converting a raw slice into a zero-based raw buffer,
which is a common operation on flat memory.
Add and update UnsafeRawBufferPointer unit tests.
* Do not run recursive O(n^2) collection slice testing on large collections.
Now, even with collection unit testing wired up, the validation tests
take the same amount of time to execute.
* Add init(rebasing:) to UnsafeBufferPointer.
This is required for consistency with UnsafeRawBufferPointer.
* Update CHANGELOG.md for SE-0138 amendment: UnsafeRawBufferPointer slice type.
This revises and expands upon documentation for the standard library's
unsafe pointer types. This includes typed and raw pointers and buffers,
the MemoryLayout type, and some other top-level functions.
https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0138-unsaferawbufferpointer.md
Unsafe[Mutable]RawBufferPointer is a non-owning view over a region of memory as
a Collection of bytes independent of the type of values held in that
memory. Each 8-bit byte in memory is viewed as a `UInt8` value.
Reads and writes on memory via `Unsafe[Mutable]RawBufferPointer` are untyped
operations. Accessing this Collection's bytes does not bind the
underlying memory to `UInt8`. The underlying memory must be bound
to some trivial type whenever it is accessed via a typed operation.
In addition to the `Collection` interface, the following methods from
`Unsafe[Mutable]RawPointer`'s interface to raw memory are
provided with debug mode bounds checks: `load(fromByteOffset:as:)`,
`storeBytes(of:toByteOffset:as:)`, and `copyBytes(from:count:)`.
This is only a view into memory and does not own the memory. Copying a value of
type `UnsafeMutableRawBufferPointer` does not copy the underlying
memory. Assigning an `Unsafe[Mutable]RawBufferPointer` into a value-based
collection, such as `[UInt8]` copies bytes out of memory. Assigning into a
subscript range of UnsafeMutableRawBufferPointer copies into memory.
