Removing exceptions from core/compiler-core (#1953)

* #include an absolute path didn't work - because paths were taken to always be relative.

* Refactor Stream. Working on all tests.

* Split out CharEncode.

* Make method names lower camel.
m_prefix in Writer/Reader

* Tidy up around CharEncode interface.

* Small improvements around encode/decode.

* Better use of types.

* Remove readLine from TextReader.

* Remove exceptions from Stream/Text handling.

* Fix some typos.

* Fix tabbing.

* Fix missing override.

* Remove remaining exception throw/catch via using signal mechanism.

* Remove exceptions that are not used anymore.

* Document the Stream interface.

* Remove index for decoding 'get byte' function.

* Fix CharReader -> ByteReader.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/source/slang/slang-serialize-types.cpp b/source/slang/slang-serialize-types.cpp
index fc839afc1..6c4512b1d 100644
--- a/source/slang/slang-serialize-types.cpp
+++ b/source/slang/slang-serialize-types.cpp
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ namespace Slang {
 
 namespace { // anonymous
 
-struct CharReader
+struct ByteReader
 {
-    char operator()(int pos) const { SLANG_UNUSED(pos); return *m_pos++; }
-    CharReader(const char* pos) :m_pos(pos) {}
+    Byte operator()() const { return Byte(*m_pos++); }
+    ByteReader(const char* pos) :m_pos(pos) {}
     mutable const char* m_pos;
 };
 
@@ -37,11 +37,15 @@ struct CharReader
     stringTable.clear();
     for (const auto& slice : slices)
     {
+        // TODO(JS):
+        // This is a bit of a hack. We need to store the string length, along with the string contents. We don't want to write
+        // the size as (say) uint32, because most strings are short. So we just save off the length as a utf8 encoding.
+        // As it stands this *does* have an arguable problem because encoding isn't of the full 32 bits. 
         const int len = int(slice.getLength());
         
         // We need to write into the the string array
         char prefixBytes[6];
-        const int numPrefixBytes = EncodeUnicodePointToUTF8(prefixBytes, len);
+        const int numPrefixBytes = encodeUnicodePointToUTF8(len, prefixBytes);
         const Index baseIndex = stringTable.getCount();
 
         stringTable.setCount(baseIndex + numPrefixBytes + len);
@@ -61,8 +65,8 @@ struct CharReader
 
     while (cur < end)
     {
-        CharReader reader(cur);
-        const int len = GetUnicodePointFromUTF8(reader);
+        ByteReader reader(cur);
+        const int len = getUnicodePointFromUTF8(reader);
         slicesOut.add(UnownedStringSlice(reader.m_pos, len));
         cur = reader.m_pos + len;
     }
@@ -87,8 +91,8 @@ struct CharReader
 
     while (cur < end)
     {
-        CharReader reader(cur);
-        const int len = GetUnicodePointFromUTF8(reader);
+        ByteReader reader(cur);
+        const int len = getUnicodePointFromUTF8(reader);
         outPool.add(UnownedStringSlice(reader.m_pos, len));
         cur = reader.m_pos + len;
     }