Previously, `mrb_int` was used as the type that represents the buffer size
on memory, but the sizes of `RString` and `RArray` exceed 6 words when
`MRB_INT64` is enabled on 32-bit CPU.
I don't think it is necessary to be able to represent the buffer size on
memory that exceeds the virtual address space. Therefore, for this purpose,
introduce `mrb_ssize` which doesn't exceed the sizes of `mrb_int` and
pointer.
I think all `mrb_int` used for this purpose should be changed to
`mrb_ssize`, but currently only the members of the structures (`RString`,
`mrb_shared_string`, `RArray` and `mrb_shared_array`) are changed.
The default implementations of type predicate macros use `mrb_type`.
But `mrb_type` with `MRB_WORD_BOXING` isn't very efficient, so the new
implementations avoid `mrb_type`.
In lld linked programs, .rodata comes before .text, thus mrb_ro_data_p
will return false for strings in .rodata. Change the lower bound from
_etext to __ehdr_start to catch these cases. This works for ld.bfd, gold
and lld, and it does not have false positives even if .init_array does
not exist.
Remove the branch that uses _edata: strings in .data can be modified so
this is semantically incorrect. Delete the __APPLE__ branch (its
manpages say get_etext() and get_edata() are strongly discouraged).
.init_array has been adopted by most ELF platforms to supersede .ctors.
Neither _etext nor _edata is used, so rename MRB_USE_ETEXT_EDATA to
MRB_USE_EHDR_START.
`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.
So you don't need `-falign-functions=2` anymore. Instead your platform
must not use higher bits of the pointer (true for most platforms).
If not, you have to use `struct mrb_method_t` version.
The changes at b2c3d88f were inappropriate because the memory layout of bit
fields are implementation defined. Therefor, I fixed it not to use bit
fields.
The default implementation of `mrb_immediate_p` uses `mrb_type`. However,
in `MRB_WORD_BOXING`, `mrb_type` has many branches and is inefficient, so
provide an implementation that does not use `mrb_type`.
On 64-bit CPU, there is padding in `RBasic`, so reorder the fields and use
it as buffer of embedded string. This change allows 4 more bytes to be
embedded on 64-bit CPU.
However, an incompatibility will occur if `RString::as::ary` is accessed
directly because `RString` structure has changed.
When building WebAssembly targets with clang (e.g. wasm32-unknown-unknown), all
symbols are hidden by default. To export a symbol, it must be marked with
__attribute__((visibility(default)))
Rather than detecting this exotic target in mruby, allow MRB_API to be defined
externally.
`mrb_string_value_cstr` and `mrb_string_value_len`: obsolete
`mrb_string_cstr`: new function to retrieve NULL terminated C string
`RSTRING_CSTR`: wrapper macro of `mrb_string_cstr`
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto