On initialisation, GObject guarantees to zero-fill
class/object/interface structures. Document this so people don’t spend
forever writing:
my_object->priv->some_member = NULL;
my_object->priv->some_other_member = NULL;
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729167
These did show up in the html. Since symbol names are checked for a
trailing plural s when generating the docs, the links stay functional
after removing these comments.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728380
Since the type system does not support reloading its data and assumes
that libgobject remains loaded for the lifetime of the process, we
should link libgobject with a flag indicating that it can't be unloaded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707298
We have a configure.ac check for lib.exe that attempts to enable
creation of .lib files for our 5 public libraries. That has been broken
for a long time for two reasons:
1) the Makefiles hardcode 'lib' instead of 'lib.exe'
2) we dropped generation of .def files quite some time ago (except for
in gthread where we have the two-symbol file under version control)
Add new rules for creating .def files from dumpbin.exe (which you should
have if you have lib.exe) and fix the .lib rules to use lib.exe.
Add a bit of $(AM_V_GEN) all around, as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722033
Although returning NULL from constructor is strongly discouraged, some
old libraries need to keep doing it for ABI-compatibility reasons.
Given this, it's rude to forbid finalization from within
constructor(), since it would otherwise work correctly now anyway (and
the critical when returning NULL should discourage any new uses of
returning NULL from constructor()).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661576
Since we are no longer using sgml mode, using /* */ to
escape block comments inside examples does not work anymore.
Switch to using line comments with //
Since all element markup is now gone from the doc comments,
we can turn off the gtk-doc sgml mode, which means that from
now on, docbook markup is no longer allowed in doc comments.
To make this possible, we have to replace all remaining
entities in doc comments by their replacement text, & -> &
and so on.
If two GValues are transformable, it implies they are compatible,
so you do not need to check for compatibility yourself. Bump the
documentation to reflect this fact.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707111
Stock GDB (both versions 7.0 and 7.1) does not come with the new
backtrace code and python API. To prevent an ugly python backtrace when
auto-loading gobject.py, let's catch the exception and not register the
FrameWrapper and the FrameFilter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613732
This is really just a very crude and limited conditional breakpoint.
Update the documentation to explain conditional breakpoints in
gdb instead. Also, remove the link to refdbg, which appears dead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719687
Take this test out of 'make check'. It's causing problems for a lot of people
due to fact that it's essentially a forkbomb. It's causing failures for Debian
on ARM and it's DoSing coredumps to system crash collectors.
The conditional only covers registration of the master, not the
subprocess parts. This is because g_test_slow() always return FALSE in
the subprocesses, so they would fail to run if we didn't register them
unconditionally.
This is the sole piece of code in GLib where we make use of the
stack growing direction. And this test proves that we have been
getting the direction wrong all these years...
The signals queued while notify is frozen are emitted in
reverse order, while omitting duplicates. The lack of documentation
for this was pointed out in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607016
