ffi_helper 4.1.0

Utility classes for Dart's ffi.

1.0.0+

• dropped, shouldn't be used

2.0.0 - 2.0.0+2

• add thin Array wrapper to manage view into contiguous memory
• add Arena class for arena allocation
• add SharedArray for shared (reference counted) memory

2.0.1

• fix subclassing problem of Array

2.1.0

• Array gets a delete() method (just sugar for free(array.ptr))

3.0.0-beta

• use extensions instead of inheritance (otherwise an Array<Uint8> couldn't be passed as an Uint8Array)
• use only NativeType as as generic type parameter, which is much less verbose

3.1.0-beta

• Array.fromList() accepts all Iterable
• Arena also takes a GetView function like Array as constructor argument
• Arena now produces ArrayViews when calling newArray()
• Work on extensibility, meta annotation and documentation
• export utility functions in library utils

3.2.0-beta

• Array only stores Pointer and its length
• Extension method asTypedList() generates and caches view
• General work on API.

3.2.1-beta

• Work on SharedArray

3.2.2-beta

• fix bug! SharedArray and Arena call standard allocator instead of null

3.3.0-beta

• PlatformSpecific contains platform specific functionality for DynamicLibrary, eg. to get the platform specific file extension for dynamic libraries.

3.3.0-beta+1

• update README

4.0.0

• Array is an abstract class
• As a consequence, more dependency injection for classes that take an Array
• SharedArray has less 'questionable' semantics, or rather it now has correct ones.

4.1.0

• Array is a mixin
• ArrayList is a stupid storage class