All GDExtension function pointer types are versioned using a `@since` attribute, denoting the Godot minor version in
which they were introduced. This allows bindings to query if a feature is available for a target API version, or provide
a polyfill/fallback for it. It also serves as documentation for humans giving a feeling about recency of features.
This commit introduce separate types (e.g. GDNativeStringPtr vs GDNativeUninitializedStringPtr)
depending on if the pointed data is already initialized (C++ style where constructor is alway
called when create a variable even if it is to be passed as return value) or not (C style).
On top of that, small changes has been made to `GDNativeInterface` so that it methods are
consistent on using uninitialized return value.
* This should optimize GDScript function calling _enormously_.
* It also should simplify the GDScript VM considerably.
NOTE: GDExtension calling performance has most likely been affected until going via ptrcall is fixed.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
A while ago, argument arrays were passed as const GDNativeTypePtr* (void* const*)
This was changed to GDNativeConstTypePtr* (void const**), adding const on the value but removing it on the pointer level.
This commit changes argument types to const GDExtensionConstTypePtr* (void const* const*).
Besides object pointers, the same change is applied to variant pointers.
Non-exhaustive list of case-sensitive renames:
GDExtension -> GDNative
GDNATIVE -> GDEXTENSION
gdextension -> gdnative
ExtensionExtension ->Extension (for where there was GDNativeExtension)
EXTENSION_EXTENSION ->EXTENSION (for where there was GDNATIVE_EXTENSION)
gdnlib -> gdextension
gdn_interface -> gde_interface
gdni -> gde_interface
Jan Haller
Rémi Verschelde
David Snopek
Emmanuel Leblond
Juan Linietsky
Haoyu Qiu
Mikael Hermansson
Dmitrii Maganov
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Bastiaan Olij
Gilles Roudière