RELEASENOTES.md

0.23.0

• moved NSInteger and BOOL to mulle-c11, this only breaks stuff if you included the header directly
• new convenience function MulleObjCAdjustRangeForLength
• BREAKING CHANGE MulleObjCRangeSubtract has now a very different call signature
• NSNull has moved to MulleObjC
• Container callbacks have been reorganized again BREAKING CHANGE, definitions that really belong to MulleObjCContainerFoundation like ...Map...Callbacks are no longer in MulleObjC
• NSByteOrder now tries to include the right system header and puts more effort into defining endianess __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ and __BIG_ENDIAN__
• new debugging function MulleObjCDumpObject uses introspection MulleObjCDescribeIvars (also new) to print all ivars of an object
• added MulleObjCClassGetID function
• change callback names from f.i. ValueRetainCallback to RetainValueCallback, since ValueCallback is closer to the type name
• add convenience mulle_buffer_do_autoreleased_string which should be more favored in use to mulle_buffer_do_string with a following MulleObjCAllocationAutorelease
• new NS_OPTIONS_LOOKUP and NS_ENUM_LOOKUP functions, more streamlines printing
• you can now store thread local objects with MulleThreadObjectForKeyUTF8String, which should be reasonably fast (but not as fast as tss)
• NSCopyObject is now smart with respect to properties and can properly retain them, unless you turn this off with +mulleCopyRetainsProperties
• new function MulleObjCDescribeMemory
• breaking renamed NSRangeUTF8String to MulleObjCRangeUTF8String
• added MulleObjCRangeFor
• added id helper functions such as mulle_flexarray_do_id or mulle_id_copy

0.22.1

• adapt to changes in mulle-objc-runtime

0.22.0

• add NSRangeUTF8String function
• add MulleObjCObjectPerformSelectorReturningBOOL convenience
• received container callbacks from MulleObjCContainerFoundation
• support for NS_ENUM and NS_OPTIONS

0.21.0

• change GLOBALs for Windows
• colorized terminal output support with colorizedUTF8String (see: src/function/blob/release/mulle-sprintf-object.m)
• NSThread can now call a C-function instead of a target/selector pair
• you can give NSThreads a name, which is useful for debugging
• _MulleObjCClassAllocateObject has been renamed to _MulleObjCClassAllocateInstance for consistency with the object=class|instance model of thought
• new MulleObjCInstanceGetClassNameUTF8String function

0.20.0

• NSAutoreleasePool which is a root class gains a +class method
• breaking change -cStringDescription is now -UTF8String. Also all CString functions are now UT8String, like MulleObjCObjectSetDuplicatedUTF8String
• special debugger support from mulle-objc-runtime has been moved here
• fix forward: method signature
• sizeof( ptrdiff_t)== sizeof(uintptr_t)`` is now the law!, for the benefit of reusing %td for NSInteger printfs
• use MulleObjC_vasprintf and MulleObjC_asprintf to create autoreleased character strings. Very convenient.
• NSAutoreleasePool gains a class method
• -UTF8String is now defined on NSObject. It's like description but for C strings. It replaces cStringDescription
• sizeof( ptrdiff_t) is know known to be the same as sizeof( NSInteger)
• mulle-objc-list is no longer a dependency. If you are developing a library, you should add that dependency back in. But mulle-objc-list is shared library based and conflicts with static musl builds (for now)
• last minute change: use multififo instead of fifo for NSInvocation

0.19.0

• moved lock code to MulleObjCLockFoundation
• added MulleObjCClassSearchProperty and MulleObjCInstanceSearchProperty
• added MulleObjCClassGetNameCString and related name lookups
• ditched copyWithZone: compatibility attempts
• NSAutoreleasePool uses the stdlib allocator, to quiet the amount of allocation trace output
• added +mulleIsMainThread to NSThread
• removed unused and forgotten MulleObjCCopyObjects and MulleObjCCopyObjectArray functions
• Zombies are now shredded by default
• MulleObjCObjectSetClass in DEBUG mode checks that the instance is large enough
• NSMutableCopying is now also a protocolclass to supply mutableCopyWithZone: to legacy code
• MulleObjCContainerCallbacks are no longer part of MulleObjC but moved to MulleObjCContainerFoundation

0.18.0

• object replaces instantiate as a fast methodid
• the foundation allocator is now a pointer and no longer a struct, which makes replacement easier
• added MULLE_OBJC_DEPENDS_ON_CATEGORY macro

0.17.2

• remove duplicate objc-loader.inc

0.17.1

• new mulle-sde project structure

0.17.0

• change prefix from MulleObjCObject to MulleObjCInstance, where the object can only be an instance and not a class
• change prefix from MulleObjCObject to MulleObjCClass, where the object can only be a class and not an instance
• force serialization for NSThread notifications (via _isProbablyGoingSingleThreaded and ``_isGoingMultiThreaded)
• You can now use MulleMakeFullRange or { 0, -1 } to specify { 0, [self length] }
• MulleObjCValidateRangeAgainstLength now returns a range (it can change, if range.length was -1)
• fix some new bugs introduced by the NSThread rewrite
• NSPushAutoreleasePool takes a parameter (which is ignored) added _MulleAutoreleasePoolPush that accepts a proper universeid for future use by the compiler
• redid NSInvocation so that the MetaABI block is aligned to at least alignof( double long)
• redid NSThread so that it is now possible to "escalate" a C mulle_thread_t to an ObjC thread
• renamed MulleObjCGetClassExtra to MulleObjCClassGetExtraBytes ( but don't use it ;))
• renamed MulleObjCGetInstanceExtra to MulleObjCInstanceGetExtraBytes
• added MulleSELMapKeyCallBacks and MulleSELMapValueCallBacks
• moved NSMutableCopying into MulleObjC
• add some optional methods to NSCoding protocol
• C-based vectorizable exceptions are now part of MulleObjC (like ``_MulleObjCThrowInvalidArgumentException)
• MulleObjCHash has moved into MulleObjC
• renamed MulleObjCCallIMP to MulleObjCIMPCall for consistency
• renamed MulleObjCPerformSelector to MulleObjCObjectPerformSelector for consistency
• added MulleObjCAutoreleasedCalloc function
• added MulleObjCObjectSetDuplicatedCString function
• fixed/documented calling [super forward:], which needs to be done in C!
• allow finer control of argument handling by NSThread to support threadpools and the like
• added object (not! mulleObject) method to NSObject as the default convenience constructor, replacing alloc/init/autorelease
• fixes for NSMethodSignature and NSInvocation
• prefix/rename some non-standard methods and functions with mulle
• The main NSThread can now effectively wait for other NSThreads at exit
• added a missing file MulleObjCProtocol
• add asserts that singletons aren't nil when alloced
• moved some NSRange tests to mulle-container

0.16.0

• experimentally added MulleObjCValue and MulleObjCImmutable protocols
• fix memory clobber in NSInvocation
• added MulleThreadSetCurrentThreadUserInfo and MulleThreadGetCurrentThreadUserInfo functions
• fastmethods reshuffle, added objectForKey: and :
• new NSObject method -mulleContainsProtocol (doesn't ask superclass)
• moved startup code into own library MulleObjC-startup
• NSRunLoop is now using an instance variable in NSThread instead of the userInfo
• new NSThread method +mulleIsMultiThreaded, it knows if you are single-threaded or not
• uncaught exceptions now use abort instead of exit
• singletons return nil during universe deinitialization

0.15.2

• readonly properties aren't cleared anymore for compatibility

0.15.1

• remove mistakenly added craftinfo

0.15.0

• rename MulleObjCGetClass to MulleObjCObjectGetClass and SetClass too
• remove PROTOCOLCLASS warnings with _Pragma
• added MulleObjCClassGetLoadAddress
• NSFastEnumeration gains -count as member
• Improved NSRange validation with tests

0.14.1

• modernized mulle-sde with .mulle folder

0.14.0

• adapt to changes in 0.14.0
• reworked the universe configuration to make it easier to understand
• moved some of the convenience debug code from mulle-objc-runtime to MulleObjC
• MulleObjC is now universe aware
• restructured project and implemented a lot of the new naming scheme

0.13.0

• moved compiler and runtime tests to mulle-objc-runtime
• migrated to mulle-sde

0.12.1

• Separate startup from standalone

0.11.1

• fixes for mingw
• some changes to compile with mingw
• adjust to new hashing algorithm in runtime
• improve dealloc speed in certain cases
• fix possible alignment problem in NSMethodSignature
• the idea with "supreme" calls was nipped in the bud
• adapt to changes in mulle-objc-runtime

0.9.1

• adapt to changes in mulle_objc_runtime
• make it a cmake "C" project
• MULLE_OBJC_COVERAGE can be set to dump coverage information

0.8.4

• modernize project

0.8.4

• community release

0.8.3

• adapted to changes in the mulle_objc_runtime
• renamed internal class states to NS

0.8.1

• removed KVC support, to be transferred into its own library
• adapted to changes in the mulle_objc_runtime

0.6.1

• added the MulleObjCLoader class
• removed all nonnull from methods. An oversight from the past...
• added MulleObjCRuntimeObject for easier structure

0.4.1

• Moved NSCoder to MulleObjCFoundation
• Adapt to changes in the mulle_objc_runtime
• The Foundation can configure the exception type if so desired
• there is now no default +initialize method in NSObject!
• Introduced mulle_objc_break_exception as a convenient place to break for.

0.2.1

Adapt to changes in the mulle_objc_runtime

0.1.7

Merge in community changes

0.1.6

Fix dependency

0.1.4

Community release of 0.1.3

0.1.3

Merge community release, fix GCC_VERSION

0.1.2

Community beginning

0.1.1

A new beginning