Previously, for example, it was possible to retrieve the `String` class as follows:
```console
% bin/mruby -e 'p Comparable::Enumerable::Errno::GC::Kernel::Math::ObjectSpace::String'
String
```
Note that this patch affects the API function `mrb_const_get()`.
`mrb_class_find_path` resolves a `char*` pointer to a class name string
by calling `mrb_class_name`. It then allocates a new string with
capacity 40 to copy that `char*` into.
https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/e04184185ab43b94980550e850d8813a415fa438/src/variable.c#L1111-L1112
`mrb_class_name` resolves the class name via `class_name_str`, which
returns an `mrb_value` with type tag `MRB_TT_STRING` and backed by an
`RString*`. Then `mrb_class_name` extracts the `RSTRING_PTR`:
https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/e04184185ab43b94980550e850d8813a415fa438/src/class.c#L2133-L2134
That `RString*`-backed `mrb_value` ultimately comes from `mrb_class_path`
which resolves the string from the symbol table:
https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/e04184185ab43b94980550e850d8813a415fa438/src/class.c#L2111
The allocation of the target `str` after resolving the class name
`mrb_value` and extracting its pointer is fragile and assumes the
`RString*` is "static". If the `RString*` is not static, the
interleaving of extracting the `RSTRING_PTR` followed by a subsequent
allocation might result in the class name `mrb_value` being garbage
collected, which will leave the extracted pointer invalid.
Fix this bad interleaving by allocating the destination string first
before taking a raw pointer to an `RString*`.
Internal functions can only be called from within the library.
Functions listed in `mruby/internal.h` can be called from:
* core (src/*.c)
* gems (mrbgems/**/*.c)
But not from the application linked with `libmruby`.
Now `iv_get()` returns `pos+1` if it finds the entry, so you don't need
to call `iv_put()`. You can replace the entry value by assigning to
`t->ptr[pos-1]`.
This is a fundamentally simplified reimplementation of #5317
by @shuujii
Instead of having array of `struct iv_elem`, we have sequences of keys
and values packed in single chunk of malloc'ed memory. We don't have to
worry about gaps from alignment, especially on 64 bit architecture,
where `sizeof(struct iv_elem)` probably consumes 16 bytes, but
`sizeof(mrb_sym)+sizeof(mrb_value)` is 12 bytes.
In addition, this change could improve memory access locality.
close#5317
Instead of including `mruby/presym.h` everywhere, we provided the
fallback `mruby/presym.inc` under `include/mruby` directory, and specify
`-I<build-dir>/include` before `-I<top-dir>/include` in `presym.rake`.
So even when someone drops `-I<build-dir>/include` in compiler options,
it just compiles without failure.
And, in the calculation of the instance variable size, the fraction was
always rounded down because of division of integers, so fix it.
At the same time, test items that are no longer passed due to this
change are deleted.
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto