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>
Enable `no-proto` in `.eslintrc`.
Use `Object.setPrototypeOf()` and `Object.getPrototypeOf()`
instead of.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5140
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Roman Reiss <me@silverwind.io>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
common.js needs to be loaded in all tests so that there is checking
for variable leaks and possibly other things. However, it does not
need to be assigned to a variable if nothing in common.js is referred
to elsewhere in the test.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/4408
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Documentation currently states that setting noAssert and passing a value
larger than can fit in the Buffer will cause data to be silently
dropped. Change implementation to match documented behavior.
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3766
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
