- Support encoding and decoding four-byte UTF-8 sequences
- E_unicode supports surrogate pairs, renamed to E_utf16be for clarity
- char32_t should be used for storing a Unicode code point
The no-arguments get_text() and set_text() will now return Unicode strings in Python 3, but passing in an encoding will make them return/take bytes objects.
In Python 2, they all take regular strings, but Unicode is also accepted by the no-argument get_text() and set_text().
In the future we probably want to remove most of this interface for Python users, to whom all this is unnecessary since it duplicates functionality already in the standard library.
This allows building against the Python libraries even when the
Python interpreter/executable is missing. The correct extensions
for the binary modules will be guessed, the tests will fail,
and the bytecode for any pure-Python modules will not be
precompiled.
This is not perfect, and we need to more thoroughly address thread safety in the PRC system, but it will nonetheless address a lot of the race condition issues when querying these variables from two threads at the same time.
This requires a macro to override find_package,
as the default behavior in CMake is to fall back
from MODULE onto CONFIG.
Note that Bullet is given a specific override
not to look for a CONFIG, since Bullet tends to
use weird paths in its CONFIG script.
This is preferable because imported targets generally include
all of the relevant information specific to the particular
installation of each package, and without needing to hunt down
a bunch of variables to do it.
To do this, package_option() (which is starting to grow in scope
a little beyond just providing the package option, come to think
of it) is given a new IMPORTED_AS option, which tells the package
configuration system to look for one or more imported targets and
link against them instead.
Instead, let's use a PKG::PKGNAME interface library, which simplifies
the linking and also allows us to use imported libraries from
find_package in the future.
This should obviate the need for pystub as well.
Note that it's currently a little bit hacky; the source will
have to be moved to make the CMake dependencies work better.
This reimplements the spinlock on top of std::atomic_flag, which is guaranteed to be lockless. It also inserts the PAUSE (REP NOP) instruction which is strongly recommended to be placed in busy-wait loops by Intel.
This also includes a recursive spinlock implementation.
The spinlock implementation is disabled by default, but can be enabled by adding the --override MUTEX_SPINLOCK=1 flag to makepanda.
For example, this will let us pass a ConfigVariableFilename to anything that accepts a Filename, just like in C++.
Does not work if the return value if the typecast operator requires management.