Keep the API for ABI compatibility.
See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2935#note_1650099
for a summary of the reasoning for this change:
- The performance of system-provided allocators has improved since
GSlice was written, and they are now similarly as performant, or more
performant, than GSlice.
- The code is unmaintained and nobody understands it.
- It doesn’t integrate with tooling and system security features which
have been written for the system `malloc()` implementation (such as
sanitisers, valgrind, etc.).
- It’s confusing for developers: should they use `g_slice_new()` or
`g_new()`?
- GSlice is faster than the libc allocator for allocating and
(particularly) freeing linked lists, but since these are a rubbish
data structure, that’s not a great thing to optimise for.
For the cases where application performance is negatively impacted by
the implementation of GSlice being dropped (and we don’t think there’ll
be many), applications can use a drop-in `malloc()` replacement which is
more suited to their particular workload. Choosing an allocator in GLib
to suit all application workloads is not possible.
Including documentation updates and cleanups by Philip Withnall.
Fixes: #1079
Historically GPtrArray made possible to compare pointers of pointers values
that it holds, however this is inconvenient in most cases as it requires
wrapper functions and not friendly castings.
So, add two functions that allow to perform the comparisons between the
pointer values that a GPtrArray holds following the same syntax that we
share everywhere in the codebase.
It allows to create a GPtrArray from a null-terminated C array computing its
size and in case performing copies of the its values using the provided
GCopyFunc.
GPtrArray is a nice interface to handle pointer arrays, however if a classic
array needs to be converted into a GPtrArray is currently needed to manually
go through all its elements and do new allocations that could be avoided.
So add g_ptr_array_new_take() which steals the data from an array of
pointers and allows to manage it using the GPtrArray API.
Add functions to steal all the keys or values from a ghash (especially
useful when it's used as a set), passing the ownership of then to a
GPtrArray container that preserves the destroy notify functions.
GPtrArray's are faster than lists and provide more flexibility, so add
APIs to get hash keys and values using these containers too.
Given that we know the size at array initialization we can optimize the
allocation quite a bit, making it faster than the API using GList both at
creation time and for consumers.
This solves problems with validating untrusted inputs from D-Bus, where
invalid numbers of added and removed menu entries, and positions, could
be specified.
Original patch from
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728733#c7, tweaked by Philip
Withnall to add a few code comments and make
`G_MENU_EXPORTER_MAX_SECTION_SIZE` public so callers can check their
inputs against it if they want. Also tweaked to use `g_warning()` instead
of the nonexistent `g_dbus_warning()`.
Fixes: #861
Some applications (eg., gnome-photos) really want a large thumbnail,
if one can be created. Simply falling back to a smaller one (probably
created by an old nautilus), without giving the application a chance
to create a bigger thumbnail, is undesirable because they will appear
fuzzy.
Therefore, at separate attribute sets for all the thumbnail sizes
that are supported in the spec: normal/large/x-large/xx-large.
The old attribute will now return by default the biggest available, as
it used to be, but also including the x-large and xx-large cases.
Co-Authored-by: Marco Trevisan <mail@3v1n0.net>
Fixes: #621
This reverts commit 19353017a7.
The freedesktop SDK, which is used by gnome-build-meta, only has Meson
0.63. Bumping GLib’s Meson dependency to 0.64 means that, at the moment,
GLib is not buildable in gnome-build-meta and hence can’t be tested in
nightly pipelines against other projects, etc.
That’s bad for testing GLib.
It’s arguably bad that we’re restricted to using an older version of
Meson than shipped by Debian Testing, but that’s a separate discussion
to be had.
Revert the Meson 0.64 dependency until the freedesktop SDK ships Meson ≥
0.64. This also means reverting the simplifications to use of
`gnome.mkenum_simple()`.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/3077#note_1601064
Because Meson complains about using `configure_file(copy: true)`.
Includes improvements by Xavier Claessens.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
It’s been broken since we ported to Meson and nobody has complained, so
let’s deprecate it this cycle and remove it in GLib ≥ 2.78.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2786
Sadly, in C++ there's not an universal way to get what language standard
is used to compile GLib-based programs, in fact while most compilers
relies on `__cplusplus`, MSVC is defining that, but it does not use it
to expose such information (unless `/Zc:__cplusplus` arg is used).
On the other side, MSVC reports the language standard via _MSVC_LANG [1].
This complication makes us defining some macros in a very complex way
(such as glib_typeof()), because we need to perform many checks just to
understand if a C++ compiler is used and what standard is expecting.
To avoid this, define multiple macros that can be used to figure out
what C++ standard is being used.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/zc-cplusplus?view=msvc-170
This can be used to mark entire types as deprecated,
and trigger a warning when they are instantiated
and `G_ENABLE_DIAGNOSTIC=1` is set in the environment.
There's currently no convenient macros for defining
types with the new flag, but you can do:
```c
_G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED_BEGIN (GtkAppChooserWidget,
gtk_app_chooser_widget,
GTK_TYPE_WIDGET,
G_TYPE_FLAG_DEPRECATED)
...
_G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED_END ()
```
Includes a unit test by Philip Withnall.
This will make it clear what the bigger changes are between versions.
Kind of like a `NEWS` file for the specification.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This should clarify object paths and signatures a little, if anyone
needs that. This introduces no semantic changes.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
reStructuredText doesn’t support cross-references unless always built
with Sphinx (as I understand it). `rst2html5` doesn‘t support them.
So reword this (currently manual) cross-reference so it’s less awkward.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
I believe the specification was originally a shorter extract of
Allison’s thesis. This left a few dangling references to requirements
which were listed in a part of the thesis not included in the
specification.
Reword them slightly so they’re not quite so awkward.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
The licensing for the original GVariant specification was not specified
in the original PDF.
However, CC-BY-SA-3.0 has been agreed by Allison, the sole copyright
holder, here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/documentation/developer-www/-/merge_requests/108/#note_1586866
The diagrams were redrawn by me, so their licensing/copyright status is
clear.
Tested with `reuse lint` to ensure the data is machine-readable.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This is a verbatim conversion of the GVariant Specification from
https://people.gnome.org/~desrt/gvariant-serialisation.pdf /
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ostreedev/gvariant-rs/master/docs/gvariant-serialisation.pdf
to reStructuredText.
This is for several reasons:
1. The canonical copy has gone offline due to people.gnome.org being
shut down.
2. GLib is the reference implementation of GVariant, so should probably
host the specification (unless someone wants to host it on
freedesktop-specs).
3. Moving it out of a PDF and into reStructuredText should allow for
amendments. The specification has a few problems, typos and
oversights in its original form, and it would be good to canonically
fix them without having to write a separate addendum document.
This conversion is verbatim, and does not change the content of the
document at all, even to fix typos and broken links (which there are a
small number of in the PDF).
This describes what I’m labelling as version 1.0 of the GVariant
serialisation format. Updates to the specification can bump this version
number, in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Similar to g_source_set_static_name, this avoids
strdup overhead for debug-only information in
possibly hot code paths.
We also add a macro wrapper for g_task_set_name that
uses __builtin_constant_p to decide whether to use
g_task_set_name or g_task_set_static_name.
Given that it can be computed using an error-prone strings comparisons it
is better to provide a variable everywhere, so that we don't have the
risk of comparing values that are always false.
