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(_:)`.
This is another necessary step in introducing changes
for SE-0107: UnsafeRawPointer.
UnsafeRawPointer is great for bytewise pointer operations.
OpaquePointer goes away.
The _RawByte type goes away.
StringBuffer always binds memory to the correct CodeUnit
when allocating memory.
Before accessing the string, a dynamic element width check
allows us to assume the bound memory type.
Generic entry points like atomicCompareExchange no longer handle
both kinds of pointers. Normally that's good because you
should not be using generics in that case, just upcast
to raw pointer. However, with pointers-to-pointers
you can't do that.
In various cases where we had global operators for non-generic
concrete types (such as String + String), move those operators into
the type. This should not affect the sources, but makes the exposition
of the library cleaner.
Plus, it's a good test for the compiler, which uncovered a few issues
where the compiler was coupled with the library.
change includes both the necessary protocol updates and the deprecation
warnings
suitable for migration. A future patch will remove the renamings and
make this
a hard error.
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.
The defaults we were generating for Collection and
BidirectionalCollection didn't make any sense, because if you could do
that strideable arithmetic then you essentially had random access.
Instead we constrain the defaults to apply to RandomAccessCollection
where the Indices are a CountableRange.
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.
