Problem: Giving error messages is not flexible.
Solution: Add semsg(). Change argument from "char_u *" to "char *", also
for msg() and get rid of most MSG macros. (Ozaki Kiichi, closes
vim/vim#3302) Also make emsg() accept a "char *" argument. Get rid of
an enormous number of type casts.
f9e3e09fdc
Problem: Cannot handle binary data.
Solution: Add the Blob type. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, closesvim/vim#3638)
6e5ea8d2a9
Nvim-specific Blob conversions are implemented in future commits.
Refactor write_blob() to use a FileDescriptor, as f_writefile() was
refactored to use one (does not apply to read_blob()).
Use var_check_lock() in f_add() for Blobs from v8.1.0897.
Add a modeline to test_blob.vim and fix some doc typos.
Include if_perl.txt's VIM::Blob() documentation. Interestingly, this
function already worked before this port, as it just returns a Blob
string literal, not an actual Blob object.
N/A patches for version.c:
vim-patch:8.1.0741: viminfo with Blob is not tested
Problem: Viminfo with Blob is not tested.
Solution: Extend the viminfo test. Fix reading a blob. Fixed storing a
special variable value.
8c8b8bb56c
vim-patch:8.1.1022: may use NULL pointer when out of memory
Problem: May use NULL pointer when out of memory. (Coverity)
Solution: Check for blob_alloc() returning NULL.
e142a9467a
assert() is compiled out for release builds, but we don't want to
continue running in these impossible situations.
This also resolves the "implicit fallthrough" warnings for the asserts
in switch cases.
After merging +num64, the 64-bit sanitizer builds show that Vim doesn't
buffer the user from C's UB in signed arithmetic. Upstream doesn't
appear to be [interested] in fixing the issue, so suppress UBSAN until
someone decides to fix the problem.
N.B., the problem existed before but went unnoticed since the sanitizer
builds weren't being run in 32-bit mode.
[interested]: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/_tqf8eQy5eA/discussion
