The way of getting the default value out of a GParamSpec is to allocate
a GValue, initialise it, then call g_param_spec_set_default() to set the
default value into that GValue.
This is exactly how we handle setting the default value for all of the
construct properties that were not explicitly passed to g_object_new().
Instead of doing the alloc/init/store on all construct properties on
every call to g_object_new(), we can cache those GValues in the private
data of the GParamSpec itself and reuse them.
This patch does not actually make that change to g_object_new() yet, but
it adds the API to GParamSpec so that a future patch to GObject can make
the change.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698056
Since instance private data is now always at a constant offset to the
instance pointer, we can add an accessor for it that doesn't also
require an instance.
The idea is that classes can call this from their class_init and store
it in a file-scoped static variable and use that to find their private
data on instances very quickly, without a priv pointer.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698056
This reverts commit ddb0ce1421.
Colin's smoke testing has found issues in at least gjs and
gnome-settings-daemon. We'll need to see if we can address those.
GObject has previously allowed installing properties after class_init
has finished running. This means that you could install some of your
own properties on G_TYPE_OBJECT, for example, although they wouldn't
have worked properly.
Prevent this from happening. Require that all properties are installed by
the time class_init has finished.
Complaints go to this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698614
Classically, a GTypeInstance has had the following layout:
[[[[GTypeInstance] GObject] TypeA] TypeB] [TypeAPrivate] [TypeBPrivate]
where TypeB is a subclass of TypeA which is a GObject. Both TypeA and
TypeB use pivate data.
The main problem with this approach is that the offset between a pointer
to an instance of TypeA and the TypeAPrivate is not constant: it changes
depending on the depth of derivation and the size of the instance
structures of the derived types. For example, changing the size of the
TypeB structure in the above example would push the TypeAPrivate further
along.
This complicates the implementation of g_type_instance_get_private().
In particular, during object construction when the class pointer to the
'complete type' of the object is not yet stored in the header of the
GTypeInstance, we need a lookup table in order to be able to implement
g_type_instance_get_private() accurately.
We can avoid this problem by storing the private data before the
structures, in reverse order, like so:
[TypeBPrivate] [TypeAPrivate] [[[[GTypeInstance] GObject] TypeA] TypeB]
Now the distance between TypeA and TypeAPrivate depends only on the size
of GObject and GTypeInstance, which are static. Even in the case of
TypeB, the distance is not statically known but can be determined at
runtime and is constant (because we will know the size of TypeAPrivate
by the time we initialise TypeB and it won't change).
This approach requires a slighty dirty trick: allocating extra memory
_before_ the pointer we return from g_type_create_instance(). The main
problem with this is that it will cause valgrind to behave very badly,
reporting almost everything as "possibly lost".
We can correct for this by including a few valgrind client requests in
order to inform it that the start of the GTypeInstance should be
considered a block of memory and that pointers to it should mean that
this block is reachable. In order to make the private data reachable,
we also declare it as a block and include an extra pointer from the end
of the primary block pointing back at it. All of this is only done if
we are running under Valgrind.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698595
gtk# also has a problem with the new interface-after-init restriction
that nobody noticed until now. Add an exception for them as well so
that they have a cycle or so to sort things out.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687659
glibmm has a pretty difficult-to-solve problem caused by our recent
change to deny addition of interfaces to classes after initialisation.
They're looking for a long-term workaround for the problem, but in the
meantime we can allow the registration to succeed (with warning) if the
class looks like it's being defined by gtkmm.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697229
Flags being used in the G_DEFINE_TYPE_EXTENDED sample was "0", so it
should expand to 0 as well, otherwise the compiler would bark with:
maman-bar.c: In function ‘maman_bar_get_type’:
maman-bar.c:36:53: error: ‘flags’ undeclared (first use in this function)
maman-bar.c:36:53: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697250
Some (broken) toolchains for example trip up
-Werror=missing-prototypes in system headers. This patch allows
people to skip the formerly hardcoded "baseline" warnings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694757
When looking up signals by name (to connect, for example) and the named
signal cannot be found on the given instance, report the type of the
instance.
This is quite a lot more useful as a diagnostic message than only a
memory address.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694350
We need to keep a reference to the handler in the fast path, just like
in the slow path, otherwise if another thread disconnects the handler
we may destroy the closure while we're using it without the lock held.
We also move the freeing of the instance to after the emission is totally
done as the handler_unref_R (and the tracepoint) reference it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694253
handler_ref and handler_unref_R are always called with the signal
lock held. This is obvious for handler_unref_R as it even sometimes
drops this lock, and can be verified quickly for handler_ref by looking
at all call sites.
This improves the performace about 6% on the emit-handled and the
emit-handled-generic tests.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694253
Experimentally disable the ability to unload dynamic types by refusing
to drop the last reference on types (effectively turning the type
unloading into dead code).
The plan is to leave things like this for a stable cycle and only
proceed with removing the code if we are sure that there are no
unforeseen problems.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693351
The point of g_source_set_closure() is getting memory management right,
including handling closures disappearing from the outside (for example
because a runtime they refer to is being shutdown). This means that
sources with an associated closure should remove themselves from the
main loop and free memory when the closure is invalidated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692034
Before this commit, the only difference between the expected and actual
ABI were the addition of _init and _fini symbols in each module (now
that regexp-based export control is not catching those).
This is the bug that has been causing segfaults and criticals when accel
keys are used to close windows via GtkUIManager.
The main cause of this problem was a mistake made in the original patch
when modifying the handler_lookup() to take the extra 'closure'
parameter. The original check used was:
if (handler->sequential_number == handler_id ||
(closure && handler->closure == closure))
It was called to find a particular closure like so:
handler_lookup (instance, 0, closure, &signal_id);
The problem is that the check will return if either the signal ID or
closure matches (if a closure was given). The calling code assumes 0 to
be an invalid signal ID which will match no handlers, but unfortunately
the rest of gsignal code uses this to denote a signal that has already
been disconnected. The result is that this function was searching for a
matching closure _or_ the first already-disconnected handler. When it
found the already-disconnected handler, we'd get criticals and crashes.
The condition has been corrected; it now ignores the handler_id
parameter if the closure parameter is non-NULL.
While we're in here, change the lifecycle of the invalidation notify to
be easier to understand.
Before, the notify was removed when the last reference on the handler
dropped. This could happen in very many situations; often at the end of
an emission. Instead, we now tie the registration of the notifier to
the lifecycle of the signal connection. When the signal is disconnected
we remove the notification, even if other references are held (eg:
because it is currently being dispatched).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690118
This reverts commit f2e00a07f4.
Moving the block up would prevent G_OS_WIN32 being checked correctly as
it is a macro that is defined by including the GLib header(s), at least for
Visual C++ builds.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691769
We only want to control the default visibility for our five main
installable libraries: libglib, libgthread, libgmodule, libgobject,
libgio. We should therefore only set -fvisibility=hidden when building
those.
Use a separate substitution variable for this purpose.
Using CFLAGS directly leads to some modules built in testcases not
exporting their symbols (and then the tests fail). It also affects the
fam file monitoring module.
Colin had originally done it this way in his visibility patch series but
I failed to understand why so I didn't copy it. Now I do.
Also: revert changes made to two testcases in an attempt to work around
this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691756
Commit 282366c326 unnecessarily (skip)ed all the GParamSpec constructors like
g_param_spec_bool(). Make those introspectable by dropping the (skip) and
adding proper transfer annotations.
Keep g_param_spec_value_array() skipped as GValueArray is deprecated.
With visibility now under the control of __declspec(dllexport) we no
longer need to build .def files or use them for building our various
.dll files.
.def files used to be installed (even though it is only really useful
when creating the .dll or .lib file). Don't do that anymore either.
The Makefiles still contain rules to create a .lib file for use with
Visual Studio and these rules require .def files. There are special
requirements to using these rules (like having installed and setup
Microsoft tools for use during the build) and therefore the problem of
creating a .def file for use with them is left open to anyone willing to
make the effort. Many options are available depending on which
toolchain is in use (dlltool, pexport, gendef, dumpbin.exe, just to name
a few).
If we can find a free tool for creating .lib files in the future, we
should probably revisit this issue and add proper support back to our
build system.
This macro simply evaluates the "extern" unless it has been explicitly
defined to something else.
All of the version macros (including the unversioned deprecation markers
and GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL) now include _GLIB_EXTERN as part of their
definition.
G_INLINE has also been modified to use _GLIB_EXTERN where appropriate.
This macro should never be used outside of the gmacros.h/gversonmacros.h
headers.
The effect of this patch is that "extern" has now been added to all
functions declared in installed headers. Strictly speaking, this is
something we should have had all along...
GLIB_VAR and GOBJECT_VAR have also been modified to use _GLIB_EXTERN on
non-Windows, instead of "extern" which they were using before. The
eventual goal is to use the normal version/deprecation macros on
exported variables and drop GLIB_VAR but we need to see how this will
work on Windows before we go ahead with that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688681
Add the GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL annotation to all old functions (that
haven't already been annotated with the GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_* macros or a
deprecation macro).
If we discover in the future that we cannot use only one macro on
Windows, it will be an easy sed patch to fix that.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688681
Add a check to prevent adding an interface to a class that has already
had its class_init done.
This is an incompatible change but it is suspected that there are not
many users of this functionality. Two known exceptions are pygobject
(fixed in bug 686149) and our own testsuite (affected tests have been
temporarily disabled by this patch).
Once we confirm that nobody else is using this functionality we can
remove a rather large amount of code for dealing with this case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687659
GValueArray as a whole is deprecated in favor of GArray (with GValue
elements); warnings like "'g_value_array_get_nth' is deprecated: Use
'g_array_index' instead" are confusing because they suggest that the
GArray functions can be used with GValueArrays. Make them say "Use
'GArray' instead" instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690970
Add a check to prevent adding an interface to a class that has already
had its class_init done.
This is an incompatible change but it is suspected that there are not
many users of this functionality. Two known exceptions are pygobject
(fixed in bug 686149) and our own testsuite (affected tests have been
temporarily disabled by this patch).
Once we confirm that nobody else is using this functionality we can
remove a rather large amount of code for dealing with this case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687659
When g_type_class_get_private is called without calling
g_type_add_class_private first, a g_warning is issued, but
the name of the function to call is wrong:
g_type_class_add_class_private.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690348
In 2.34, g_compute_checksum_for_bytes() was added, but this patch
allows binding users to use the incremental update API; this is
significantly more efficient than reading entire files into memory.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689982
This lets you cache type lookup information and then know when
the cache information is out of date. In particular, we want this
in order to be able to cache g_type_from_name() lookups in the Gtk+
theme machinery.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689847
At least GDBus had code that had "_object" as a parameter to one of
its functions, but this clashes with the GObject macro
G_OBJECT_WARN_INVALID_PROPERTY_ID() which created a local "_object".
Since many of us cargo cult around copies of objects, let's be
defensive here and use local variable names less likely to clash with
application code.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689377
The gobject tools (glib-genmarshal and gobject-query) were linking
against libgthread. Stop that.
Also, remove the gthread_INCLUDES internal automake substitution.
This reverts commit 028d4a03f2.
I thought that we would be able to get away with this incompatible
change but it appears to impact far too much existing code. The only
thing we can do is revert.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688596
Add a check to prevent adding an interface to a class that has already
had its class_init done.
This is an incompatible change but it is suspected that there are not
many users of this functionality. Two known exceptions are pygobject
(fixed in bug 686149) and our own testsuite (affected tests have been
temporarily disabled by this patch).
Once we confirm that nobody else is using this functionality we can
remove a rather large amount of code for dealing with this case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687659
Basically due to a combination of va_args semantics around
signed/unsigned ints, this test case fails on ppc64. At the moment,
we have as yet to find any real-world consumer with such a large
enumeration value.
Unfortunately, the possible fixes for this are extremely invasive;
we would have to define a new enum API.
Given both of these facts, we believe it makes the most sense at the
current time to simply not test this. If we at a later time determine
there is such a real-world consumer, we can look at doing the
necessary fixes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686662
Very many testcases, some GLib tools (resource compiler, etc) and
GApplication were calling g_type_init().
Remove those uses, as they are no longer required.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686161
Move the guts of g_type_init() into a ctor and turn g_type_init() itself
into a do-nothing function.
g_type_init_with_debug_flags() now ignores its arguments, but it has
always been possible to achieve the same effect via environment
variables.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686161
If the closure is invalidated we drop the ref on the signal handler
node, but if the signal is currently being dispatched, the ref could be
held elsewhere.
Flag that we no longer have an outstanding invalidation handler so that
we don't try to unregister ourselves when the other ref drops.
Add a testcase that catches this situation.
Move the constructed() call to happen after all of the properties are
set (not just the construct properties).
This is an incompatible change but we are making it under the belief
that it should be safe. If this change impacts you in a negative way
please comment on the bug.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685733
Modify gsignal to automatically disconnect a GClosure that becomes
invalid (in the g_closure_invalidate() sense).
Previously, when g_signal_connect_object() was used with a GObject as
the user_data and that object was destroyed, the handler would no longer
be called but the signal handler was itself was not disconnected (ie:
the bookkeeping data was kept around).
The main effect of this patch is that these signal handlers will now
be automatically disconnected (and fully freed).
The documentation for g_signal_connect_object() has anticipated this
change for over 10 years and has advised the following workaround when
disconnecting signal handlers connected with g_signal_connect_object():
if (g_signal_handler_is_connected (instance, id))
g_signal_handler_disconnect (instance, id);
If your code follows this practice then it will continue to work.
If your code never disconnects the signal handler then it was wasting
memory before (and this commit fixes that).
If your code unconditionally disconnects the signal handler then you
will start to see (harmless) g_critical() warnings about this and you
should fix them.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118536
Because it now handles EINTR. And we should do so. While most people
use Linux, which tries very hard to avoid propagating EINTR back up
into userspace, it can still happen.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682833
This avoids warnings when creating idiomatic value tables, like:
static const GTypeValueTable _clutter_shader_float_value_table = {
clutter_value_init_shader_float,
clutter_value_free_shader_float,
clutter_value_copy_shader_float,
clutter_value_peek_pointer,
"ip",
clutter_value_collect_shader_float,
"pp",
clutter_value_lcopy_shader_float
};
Because the strings are literals. And, really: nobody should be using
allocated values for the collection and lcopy strings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671545
The current note makes it look like the marshaller code generation has
been deprecated in favour of the libffi-based generic marshaller; this
is not the case, so we should probably clarify the point a bit.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677235
Otherwise we crash with a null-ptr deref in g_object_newv and ever there we
should not return null, as we're saying that object creation will not return
null.
Expand the documentation for g_object_[freeze|thaw]_notify() to explain that
it deduplicates “notify” signals emitted by frozen objects, so that at most
one signal is emitted per property.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676937
I didn't do this comprehensively, since there's a lot of it, mainly
due to the GDBus object manager stuff, but anyone trying to use
that would fail fast due to lack of the gdbus code generator.
My main goal was to get API additions to existing classes like
g_data_input_stream_read_line_utf8(), as well as the lower level new
API like glib-unix.h.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676816
Commit f084b60377 incorrectly set
DIST_SUBDIRS for the toplevel Makefile.am. In general actually we
don't need to set it, because modern automake automatically sets
it by looking at conditionals for SUBDIRS.
Tested-by: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz@t-online.de>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667806
This patch solves two problems:
First, it allows builders to optionally cut the circular dependency
between dbus and glib by disabling the modular tests (just like how
the tests can be disabled in dbus).
Second, the tests are entirely pointless to build if cross-compiling.
It also moves us slightly closer to the long term future we want where
the tests are a separate ./configure invocation and run against the
INSTALLED glib, not the one in the source tree. This would allow us to
run the tests constantly, not just when glib is built.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667806
