refactor: remove internal ffi module #310
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This PR removes the internal ffi module,
which had been used to wrap the low-level C
types.
It is no longer clear that we have a robust
pattern warranting a trait.
So we are removing the internal trait until
such a pattern becomes clear.
The issues are:
The table collection is the main example here:
we need to malloc it so that a tree sequence
can steal its pointer.
structures.
This requirement leads to rust code that looks
sketchy at first glance.
This PR refactors that code to leave things
in either a NonNull or a MaybeUninit as long
as possible.