Distinguishing between "local bugs" and "preconditions" was proving difficult in practice, because a precondition failure in one function may very well indicate a bug in a calling function, but the exception may be thrown through that function, thus when caught the classification is nonsensical. The distinction also was not as useful as imagined. So, I eliminated this distinction.

Add asBytes() and asChars() methods to array classes to reinterpret-cast to bytes / chars, since this happens all the time and is otherwise a huge pain.

Use the new methods in a bunch of places.

The project file still only compiles a test binary, but it should be easy to separate out a library project from here.

Thanks again to Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com> for much help getting this working.

Thanks to Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com> for much help getting this started.

This prevents the compiler from reporting warnings in these headers while compiling application code. Hopefully this will stem the never-ending stream of complaints from people who enable pedantic warnings.

Add __forceinline for MSVC

For portions currently copyright by Kenton (most of it), transfer copyright to Sandstorm Development Group, Inc. (Kenton's company).

The license change is practically meaningless, as MIT and BSD 2-clause are legally equivalent. However, the BSD 2-clause license is sometimes confused for its ugly siblings, BSD 3-clause and BSD 4-clause. The MIT license is more immediately recognizeable for what it is.

Rémy Blank and Jason Choy (the two non-trivial contributors) are on record as approving this change:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/capnproto/xXDd2HUOCcc/gbe_COIuXKYJ

Extend FlatArrayMessageReader to indicate where the message actually ended, in case it was not the end of the array.  Useful when reading an mmap'd file with a Cap'n Proto prefix.  Also fix a bug in Maybe dealing with DisallowConstCopy subclasses.

Don't ever auto-define NDEBUG.  Just decide KJ_DEBUG based on optimization mode if neither DEBUG nor NDEBUG is defined.

Improve inf/nan.  This also makes GCC encode them consistently with Clang and with the existing testdata.

Define new KJ constants for min/max integer values and inf/nan, then remove all use of numeric_limits.

Make 'capnp decode' heuristically detect and warn when the wrong format flag (e.g. --packed, --flat) is used.

Warn when an optimized build doesn't set NDEBUG and then #define it ourselves -- unless the build explicitly sets DEBUG.

Fix compiler bugs.  Now test.capnp compiles to an identical schema to the old Haskell compiler, minus intentional changes.

Implement mutex and once-init synchronization primitives.  Wrap pthreads for now, but plan on raw futexes later.