Currently we rely on some undefined behavior when Object->cast_to() gets
called with a Null pointer. This used to work fine with GCC < 6 but
newer versions of GCC remove all codepaths in which the this pointer is
Null. However, the non-static cast_to() was supposed to be null safe.
This patch makes cast_to() Null safe and removes the now redundant Null
checks where they existed.
It is explained in this article: https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0226/
I'm working on Nim bindings and Nim GC needs to know the stack
boundaries to check whether certain pointers are located on the stack
or in the heap. This commit adds godot_get_stack_bottom procedure
to gdnative module which returns pointer to the stack bottom of the
main thread. Later on this may be improved to return stack bottom of
the current thread.
This adds GDNative as a separate class type.
It can be used to interface with native libraries by
using "native calls", which can be registered by modules
(and in future other GDNative libraries?).
It also reworks the currently called "GDNativeScript" into a
"NativeScript" that just makes use of the new GDNative instead
of it being the component that implements that functionality.
Those errors were introduced with #8821 (6fd217d). These functions need to return reference types, otherwise setting values on those containers does not work.
