This commit rewrites the runtime crate to provide safety in the face
of recursive calls to the guest. The basic principle is that
`GuestMemory` is now a trait which dynamically returns the
pointer/length pair. This also has an implicit contract (hence the
`unsafe` trait) that the pointer/length pair point to a valid list of
bytes in host memory "until something is reentrant".
After this changes the various suite of `Guest*` types were rewritten.
`GuestRef` and `GuestRefMut` were both removed since they cannot safely
exist. The `GuestPtrMut` type was removed for simplicity, and the final
`GuestPtr` type subsumes `GuestString` and `GuestArray`. This means
that there's only one guest pointer type, `GuestPtr<'a, T>`, where `'a`
is the borrow into host memory, basically borrowing the `GuestMemory`
trait object itself.
Some core utilities are exposed on `GuestPtr`, but they're all 100%
safe. Unsafety is now entirely contained within a few small locations:
* Implementations of the `GuestType` for primitive types (e.g. `i8`,
`u8`, etc) use `unsafe` to read/write memory. The `unsafe` trait of
`GuestMemory` though should prove that they're safe.
* `GuestPtr<'_, str>` has a method which validates utf-8 contents, and
this requires `unsafe` internally to read all the bytes. This is
guaranteed to be safe however given the contract of `GuestMemory`.
And that's it! Everything else is a bunch of safe combinators all built
up on the various utilities provided by `GuestPtr`. The general idioms
are roughly the same as before, with various tweaks here and there. A
summary of expected idioms are:
* For small values you'd `.read()` or `.write()` very quickly. You'd
pass around the type itself.
* For strings, you'd pass `GuestPtr<'_, str>` down to the point where
it's actually consumed. At that moment you'd either decide to copy it
out (a safe operation) or you'd get a raw view to the string (an
unsafe operation) and assert that you won't call back into wasm while
you're holding that pointer.
* Arrays are similar to strings, passing around `GuestPtr<'_, [T]>`.
Arrays also have a `iter()` method which yields an iterator of
`GuestPtr<'_, T>` for convenience.
Overall there's still a lot of missing documentation on the runtime
crate specifically around the safety of the `GuestMemory` trait as well
as how the utilities/methods are expected to be used. Additionally
there's utilities which aren't currently implemented which would be easy
to implement. For example there's no method to copy out a string or a
slice, although that would be pretty easy to add.
In any case I'm curious to get feedback on this approach and see what
y'all think!
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