We should be using branch prediction on asserts as these conditions are known to be unlikely, therefore we should be optimizing the likely case. These macros are similar to what the Linux kernel uses. Not really sure what Visual Studio does so at the moment these are disabled for VS.
This is my best attempt at fixing the issues raised by @gdr-at-ms while supporting VS2013, VS2015, providing shorter syntax than the static_cast and giving developer meaningful errors when they do the wrong thing.
span being a view and not a container, the generic version of gsl::at is not valid any more for span.
This commits adds a specialization of gsl::at for span
Not all platforms have support for strnlen (e.g. cygwin) as this is a non-standard function. This patch provides a custom implementation of strnlen for these platforms.
whether using it from the development folder, from the installation
folder or from being copied into a project.
#include <gsl/gsl.h>
Updated headers/tests/instructions/cmake build accordingly
This PR should address https://github.com/Microsoft/GSL/issues/277 (less
the renaming of gsl itself)
