`mrb_run` requires to push callinfo stack before calling, which is very
hard from outside of `vm.c`. So there should be virtually no correct
usage of the function, hence the cause of #4488. We removed it.
You can use `mrb_top_run(mrb, proc, self, 0)` instead of
`mrb_run(mrb, proc self)`.
The difference between `mrb_singleton_class` and `mrb_singleton_class_ptr`:
- `mrb_singleton_class_ptr` returns `struct RClass*`.
- `mrb_singleton_class_ptr` returns `NULL` on immediate values where
`mrb_singleton_class` raises exceptions.
Keyword arguments can now be retrieved with the `:` specifier and
`mrb_kwargs` data.
For the interface, I referred to CRuby's `rb_get_kwargs()`.
For implementation, I referred to `OP_KARG` or etc.
`MRB_METHOD_TABLE_INLINE` was fragile. It requires `-falign-functions=n`.
On platform that uses higher bits of function pointers, you can use new
`MRB_METHOD_T_STRUCT` configuration macro.
This time, the allocated memory comes from the string object, which is
referenced from GC arena. The memory region will be reclaimed when the C
function called from VM is terminated, or the GC arena is restored.
When I found this function, I expected it to behave the same as the
`alloca(3)` function, but it is accually the `mrb_alloca()` function
does not free the heap until the `mrb_close()` function is called.
Also, even if it is deleted, it can be replaced with the combination
of the `MRB_TT_DATA` object and the `mrb_gv_set()` function if it is
sure necessary.
Functions to add prototypes to headers:
* mrb_ary_splice()
* mrb_notimplement()
* mrb_vformat()
* mrb_cstr_to_dbl()
* mrb_cstr_to_inum()
Functions to be made `static` (`MRB_API` was not needed):
* mrb_mod_module_function()
* mrb_obj_hash()
* mrb_str_len_to_inum()
Functions to remove `MRB_API` from definitions (referenced from within `libmruby`):
* mrb_mod_cv_defined()
* mrb_mod_cv_get()
* mrb_f_send()
Small symbols with all alphanumeric characters (<5) are packed in 32bit
symbol integer a la base64. This means those small symbols are not
listed in `Symbol.all_symbols`.
In 4174e02, we removed the symbol hash table from `mrb_state` but
`find_symbol` was too slow with linear search. My performance estimation
was wrong. So we implemented a new compact hash table for symbols.
Use linear search instead. Number of symbols is usually small (<1K), so
we don't need performance boost from hash tables. In our benchmark
measurement, hash tables consumes 790KB for `build/full-debug/mrbtest`.
We have added internal convenience method `__to_str` which
does string type check.
The issue #3854 was fixed but fundamental flaw of lack of stack
depth check along with fibers still remains. Use `MRB_GC_FIXED_ARENA`
for workaround.
The ISO standard does not include implicit type conversion using
`to_int`. This implicit conversion often causes vulnerability.
There will be no more attacks like #4120.
In addition, we have added internal convenience method `__to_int` which
does type check and conversion (from floats).
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto