restore non-copying String behavior, add unsafe_string*, ...#16731

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Jun 8, 2016

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rename pointer-based string and array constructors to unsafe_string, unsafe_string_wrapper, and unsafe_array_wrapper; restore non-copying behavior of String(::Vector{UInt8}) constructor (closes Jul…
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replace unsafe_string(pointer(buf), len) idiom with String(buf[1:n])
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cleaner workaround for JuliaLang#16730
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rename unsafe_x_wrap to unsafe_wrap(x, ...)
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NEWS update
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remove unnecessary tests for integer conversion in unsafe_wrap, and hopefully remove occasional method ambiguity errors: overflow is already checked by convert, and sizes ≤ 0 are already checked in…
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doc fixes
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