- [x] Depends on: #3958
- [x] Depends on: #3960
This makes the UTF-8 encode and decode functions have lean definitions,
so that we can prove properties about them downstream.
Previously, there was a function `opaque fromUTF8Unchecked : ByteArray
-> String` which would convert a list of bytes into a string, but as the
name implies it does not validate that the string is UTF-8 before doing
so and as a result it produces unsound results in the compiler (because
the lean model of `String` indirectly asserts UTF-8 validity). This PR
replaces that function by
```lean
opaque validateUTF8 (a : @& ByteArray) : Bool
opaque fromUTF8 (a : @& ByteArray) (h : validateUTF8 a) : String
```
so that while the function is still "unchecked", we have a proof witness
that the string is valid. To recover the original, actually unchecked
version, use `lcProof` or other unsafe methods to produce the proof
witness.
Because this was the only `ByteArray -> String` conversion function, it
was used in several places in an unsound way (e.g. reading untrusted
input from IO and treating it as UTF-8). These have been replaced by
`fromUTF8?` or `fromUTF8!` as appropriate.
- Lean strings (like std::string) may contain null characters. The
codebase was ignoring this issue.
- We now have a wrapper `string_ref` for wrapping Lean string objects in
C++. This wrapper also implements correctly the coercions std::string <-> string_ref.
Remark: I also found a few places where the code relies on the
following property which is not true
Forall s : std::string, std::string(s.c_str()) == s
- `name` object wrapper was assuming that all numerals were small
`nat` values. This is true in most cases, but the system would
crash when processing if it is a big number.
- The commit tries to make sure runtime/util/kernel are correct.
Modules that will be deleted contain many `TODO` comments
indicating they may crash and/or produce incorrect results
when strings contain null characters and numerals are big.
cc @kha
@kha: I thought about using `string` instead of `string_ref`.
We consistently use `std::string`. So, it should be fine, but I
was concerned about code readability.
After we bootstrap Lean4, we will be able to delete `lean::list`
template, and rename `lean::list_ref` to `lean::list`.
I am going to add `pair_ref` for wrapping Lean pair objects.
If we use `lean::string` instead of `lean::string_ref`, then
we should also use `lean::pair` instead of `lean::pair_ref`.
But, there is a problem in this case since we have
https://github.com/leanprover/lean4/blob/master/src/util/pair.h#L13
:(
Reason:
- UTF8 encoding
- Lean strings may contain null char. That is, null char is not an end
of string delimiter like in C. Lean string objects are similar to std::string
