keys and returns them in an array. This effectively allows a caller
to mutate a dictionary while iterating over it (really, you iterate
over the array of keys instead of the dictionary itself).
- Add a slew of utility functions that make it more convenient (in some
circumstances, anyway) to get/set values in a dictionary.
- Arrays can now be externalized and internalized in the same way
dictionaries can.
- Add new "externalize to file" and "internalize from file" functions
to make reading a property list from a file and writing a property
list to a file more convenient.
- Many assertions in the object implementations are gone. Instead,
calling an accessor for one object type with a different object type
as an argument will return a suitable "invalid" value.
- prop_object_type() now returns a new PROP_TYPE_UNKNOWN value if called
with a NULL object.
- Externalized property lists now contain a reference to the Apple XML
plist DTD.
- Add a new prop_ingest(3) facility, which provides a convenient way to
translate a dictionary into an arbitrary binary representation.
prop_dictionary_keysym_equals(), and prop_object_equals() functions.
- Use realloc() where it makes sense. There will be more changes in this
area.
- Add a _prop_object_type structure that is used internally to keep
information about the object types. Decreases the footprint of the
objects slightly by replacing several pointers with just one.
njoly