Namespaces as values adds a bunch of extra special cases to the coercion and equality rules that don't really belong there. Namespace itself just returns it's URI as a string, so we can just make `NamespaceObject` do that and then treat it the same way we treat boxed primitives.
These include:
* Name resolution in `newobject`
* All runtime & late-bound multinames
* `Object.hasOwnProperty`
* `Object.propertyIsEnumerable`
* `Object.setPropertyIsEnumerable`
AVM2 is based on ES4, which as far as I'm aware, does not distinguish between "primitive values" and "objects". Thus, it is expedient to interpret any statement requiring something to be an Object to mean "not null or undefined".
Since we internally represent register values with primitive types, it is important that the VM always coerces to object before doing any other sort of type checking. Hence, something like `as_object` is unhelpful as it accidentally enforces a primitive/object distinction that ES4 attempted to remove.
The test is also far more in-depth than the `if_eq`/`if_ne` tests, which use the same set of vectors as the strict-equality tests from a while ago. Interestingly, this test passed on first run
Implementation is limited to generating exceptions on `null` or `undefined`. I'm not sure if primitive values don't exist in AVM2 or if this is supposed to box them like ES3, so I have decided to handle neither at this time.
The ECMA-262 documentation is awfully overwrought for something that boils down to "chop off the non-whole part, wrap to 32 bits, then reinterpret as signed". Bitwise operations are *hell* to describe mathematically, and such descriptions are even harder to understand.
For whatever reason, `pushbyte` appears to be processed as a *signed* byte, despite the clear wording of "*byte_value* is an unsigned byte" in avm2overview.pdf. I guess it's supposed to be manually converted and promoted in this manner.
Functions that need to assert Boolness without coercion should either:
1. Ensure their function declaration requires a Boolean. (We don't enforce type errors on ES4 typehints yet, but we should.)
2. Check the value type themselves and raise their own errors if necessary.
As it stands the only users of `as_bool` either needed to check the type themselves or use `coerce_to_bool`. Notably, `setPropertyIsEnumerable` doesn't appear to coerce *or* throw an error: it instead fails silently if you hand it a non-`Boolean` value.
For good measure, most of the other methods in `value` for retrieving pool primitives now also use `TranslationUnit` instead of `AbcFile`. This is the result of a handful of cascading changes throughout the project, and itself caused a few more.
Interface methods are specifically not allowed to be called: as a result, they don't get a method body. Existing code assumed a 1:1 relationship between methods and bodies, which causes spurious errors.
This is inspired by Dinnerbone's similar PR on the AVM1 side, where the Action half of that VM's `Executable` was reduced from 128 bytes to 16 by shoving it in a `Gc`. This won't be as dramatic but should still save some memory.
In fact, it should save a *lot* of memory in bytecode execution, where thanks to the previous commit's rebase, we now need to clone the current method once *for each instruction executed*. That is terrible, but should stop now.
This also results in a far reduced role for `ReturnValue`, since I also took the liberty of removing most of it's use. Furthermore, I also made it apply equally to native and AVM2 code, which ensures all native implementations of methods don't double-borrow.
In AVM1, `ReturnValue` was actually removed entirely, because it's not needed. I attempted to do the same, but the fact that we're currently embedding `ScriptObjectData` in native objects means that we need it for virtual properties. Otherwise, virtual property implementations will see locked objects, which is bad.
This commit breaks the build: we still need to tell `Avm2` how to turn ABC traits into our own internal `Trait<'gc>`, `Class<'gc>`, and `Method<'gc>` types. We also need something to track which traits have already been instantiated, because `callstatic` would otherwise reinstantiate the trait in a different scope. (In fact, I think it *does* do exactly that right now...)
This works primarily by retaining the current superclass prototype in the activation object and then using it to retrieve the super method.
For constructors, we implement the `constructor` property, which is probably not the correct way to do this.
Also, implement a method table that method traits can optionally add themselves to.
Also also, add the ability to invoke a method without a `this` object. This required a non-trivial refactoring of the activation machinery, and changes to the signature of `NativeFunction`, and all native AVM2 functions.
I'm writing all this code assuming that classes and traits are syntactic sugar around ES3-style prototype chains on function objects. Hence, `FunctionObject` is still our workhorse object type for implementing typing.
David Wendt