Currently we rely on some undefined behavior when Object->cast_to() gets
called with a Null pointer. This used to work fine with GCC < 6 but
newer versions of GCC remove all codepaths in which the this pointer is
Null. However, the non-static cast_to() was supposed to be null safe.
This patch makes cast_to() Null safe and removes the now redundant Null
checks where they existed.
It is explained in this article: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0226/
The _init call was buggy anyway and in the end shouldn't be a
thing that's called via ClassDB, it should be something that's
language specific, so we leave this out for the bindings.
In the commit 66a7763 the SCsub file for GDNative was changed to
use a cloned environment, that bricked -rdynamic which needs to be
passed down to the linker, which didn't happen with the new env.
In 3c53b35 a call to an "_init" function was introduced,
that however was only executed in the `_new` function,
also it *required* that such a function exists.
With this patch the "_init" function will be optionally called on
every instance creation.
When looking up a symbol from a library, previously an error was
shown when the symbol did not exist. That caused confusion when the
lookup was completely optional.
This adds a new parameter to that method so that those errors can
be handled manually if needed.
This also changes Reference::unreference() to always invoke
refcount_decremented. Previously it was not invoked until the count
reached zero due to short-circuit evalution of boolean expressions.
Godot may call property setters from non-main thread when an object is
loaded in the edtior. This means NativeScriptLanguage could be accessed
from different threads, but it was not designed for thread-safety.
Besides, previous behaviour made it so that godot_nativescript_init and
godot_gdnative_init could be invoked from non-main thread, while
godot_gdnative_thread is always invoked on the main thread. This may
not be expected by the binding library.
This commit defers native library initialization to the main thread and
adds godot_nativescript_thread_enter and godot_nativescript_thread_exit
callbacks to make a binding library aware of foreign threads.
This adds GDNative as a separate class type.
It can be used to interface with native libraries by
using "native calls", which can be registered by modules
(and in future other GDNative libraries?).
It also reworks the currently called "GDNativeScript" into a
"NativeScript" that just makes use of the new GDNative instead
of it being the component that implements that functionality.
Hein-Pieter van Braam
Juan Linietsky
Wilson E. Alvarez
Rémi Verschelde
Ignacio Etcheverry
Thomas Herzog
Ruslan Mustakov
Marcelo Fernandez
Indah Sylvia
Karroffel
sheepandshepherd
Ramesh Ravone