The `mrb_get_argv()` function will now return `const mrb_value *`.
This is because it is difficult for the caller to check if it is a splat argument (array object) and to write-barrier if necessary.
The "a"/"*" specifier of the `mrb_get_args()` function will now return `const mrb_value *`.
This is because it is difficult for the caller to check if it is an array object and write-barrier if necessary.
And it requires calling `mrb_ary_modify()` on the unmodified array object, which is also difficult (this is similar to #5087).
This reverts commit 8746a6fe4e7bda8a0fbc0eaece9314ec51a0c255.
We already have `mrb_protect()`, `mrb_ensure()` and `mrb_rescue()`
functions. If you need to handle exceptions from C functions, use those
functions above.
`mrb_exc_protect()` takes two C functions, `body` to be executed first,
and `resc` to be executed when an error happens during `body` execution.
Since `mrb_exc_protect()` should be compiled with the proper compiler,
we will not see the problem like #5088 that was caused by `setjmp()` and
`throw` mixture.
- `mrb_check_intern()` to return `mrb_value`
- `mrb_intern_check()` to return `mrb_sym` [NEW]
Other new functions:
- `mrb_intern_check_cstr()`
- `mrb_intern_check_str()`
Rename new functions:
- `mrb_convert_type(mrb,val,type,tname,method)`
=> `mrb_type_convert(mrb,val,type,tname,method)`
- `mrb_check_convert_type(mrb,val,type,tname,method)`
=> `mrb_type_convert_check(mrb,val,type,tname,method)`
Old names are defined by macros (support `tname` drop and
`char*` => `mrb_sym` conversion).
In the past code, the current `callinfo (ci)` was modified, thus it was
possible to pop `ci` beyond the `cibase`, that could cause out of memory
bound access for the code like the following:
```ruby
def m2
lambda {
Proc.new {
return :return # return from the method
}
}.call.call
:never_reached
end
p m2
```
By definition `mrb_assert()` called only when `MRB_DEBUG` is defined too.
But make I wanted to make clear that the local variable `current_checkpoint_tag`
is only accessed when `MRB_DEBUG` is set by wrapping with `DEBUG_ONLY_EXPR()`.
To make packed inline symbols within 31 bits, because the new method
hash tables allows only 31 bits of symbols. They use top 1 bit to maek
unused slots.
They are basically the copy of instance variable tables. On my Linux
box, memory consumption of `mrbtest` measured by `valgrind` is:
- old: 17,683,830 bytes
- new: 14,283,749 bytes
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto