Several changes:
* Soft-Deprecate Buffer() constructors
* Add `Buffer.from()`, `Buffer.alloc()`, and `Buffer.allocUnsafe()`
* Add `--zero-fill-buffers` command line option
* Add byteOffset and length to `new Buffer(arrayBuffer)` constructor
* buffer.fill('') previously had no effect, now zero-fills
* Update the docs
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4682
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
As per the `prefer-const` eslint rule, few instances of `let` have been
identified to be better with `const`. This patch updates all those
instances.
Refer: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3118
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3152
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <mic.besace@gmail.com>
Instantiating a Buffer of length zero would set the kNoZeroFill flag to
true but never actually call ArrayBuffer::Allocator(). Which means the
flag was never set back to false. The result was that the next
allocation would unconditionally not be zero filled.
Add test to ensure Uint8Array's are zero-filled after creating a Buffer
of length zero. This test may falsely succeed, but will not falsely fail.
Fix: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/2930
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2931
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
