This new name (and the fact that it is a function returning a type) will
make it more clear which use cases are better suited for ArrayList and
which are better suited for ArrayListSentineled.
Also for consistency with ArrayList,
* `append` => `appendSlice`
* `appendByte` => `append`
Thanks daurnimator for pointing out the confusion of std.Buffer.
closes#4766
This commit also fixes the implementation of some utility functions for
adjusting properties of pointer types. Previously these functions would
incorrectly drop vector, sentinel, and inference metadata.
Constant-folding the pointers to the expected sentinel value have some
big problems: it hides the real content of the array, makes the pointer
to the sentinel point to a completely different memory region and treats
it like a const value even when the underlying array is mutable.
Fixes#4840
* Always allocate an info block per-thread so that libc can store
important stuff there.
* Respect ABI-mandated alignment in more places.
* Nicer code, use slices/pointers instead of raw addresses whenever
possible.
because it uncovered a result location bug, and I need to get this
branch merged before going into a result location rabbit hole.
also fix the result type of slicing when the indexes are runtime known
and the result should be sentinel terminated.
* Don't add an extra slot for the sentinel. Most of the code keeps using
the constant value from the type descriptor, let's harmonize all the
code dealing with sentinels.
* Properly write out sentinel values when reinterpreting pointers at
comptime.
* Allow the reading of the 0th element in a `[0:S]T` type.
Remove `std.fs.deleteTree`. Callers instead should use
`std.fs.cwd().deleteTree`.
Add `std.fs.deleteTreeAbsolute` for when the caller has an absolute
path.
* Underscores `_` may be placed between two digits in a int/float literal
* Consecutive underscores are not allowed
* Fixed parsing bug in exponents of hexadecimal float literals.
Exponents should always be base 10, but hex characters would be parsed
inside the exponent and everything after them would be ignored. eg:
`0x1.0p1ab1` would be parsed as `0x1.0p1`.
Andrew Kelley