Apparently this is needed for building PE libraries. It makes no
difference on Linux, where linking of the GLib symbols in the inotify
file monitor code is done lazily.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1201
The accepted behaviour for reference counting functions can be described
as such:
- acquire: takes a pointer to a memory area and returns the same
pointer with its reference count increased; this means that the
returned value's ownership is fully transfered from the callee
to the caller
- release: takes a pointer to a memory area and drops the reference
count; this means that the caller transfers the ownership of the
argument to the callee
These annotations are mostly meant for documentation purposes: high
level language bindings are unlikely to use them, as they have their own
reference counting semantics on top of GLib's own, and they should not
expose this API to their own consumers.
The global hash table we use for interned strings should not own a
reference on the strings themselves, as otherwise we'd leak them all
over the place.
Instead, it should keep a "weak" reference to them; once the last
strong reference goes away, we drop remove the weak reference from the
hash table.
Both g_rc_box_release_full() and g_atomic_rc_box_release_full() should
allow passing NULL as the clear function, to conform to the existing
coding practices in GLib.
Additionally, this allows us to reimplement release() in terms of
release_full(), and improve test coverage.
The last part of the reference counting saga.
Now that we have:
- reference counter types
- reference counted allocations
we can finally add reference counted strings using reference counted
allocations to avoid creating a new String type, and reimplementing
every single string-based API.
It's more useful to have a dup() function that copies any blob of memory
into a reference counted allocation, than to have a dup() that only
copies a reference counted allocation.
GArcBox is the atomic reference counting version of GRcBox. Unlike
GRcBox, the reference acquisition and release on GArcBox are guaranteed
to be atomic, and thus they can be performed from different threads.
This is similar to Rust's Arc<Box<T>> combination of traits.
It is useful to provide a "reference counted allocation" API that can
add reference counting semantics to any memory allocation. This allows
turning data structures that usually are placed on the stack into memory
that can be placed on the heap without:
- adding a public reference count field
- implementing copy/free semantics
This mechanism is similar to Rust's Rc<Box<T>> combination of traits,
and uses a Valgrind-friendly overallocation mechanism to store the
reference count into a private data segment, like we do with GObject's
private instance data.
We don’t have the same dependency in the Meson build, and we don’t
depend on Perl any more. See #1332. The last remaining Perl script,
gen-unicode-tables.pl, is only ever run manually when we update our
Unicode character database. It will be ported to Python in due course.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1332
See comment in !151. Using the "--initial" option of lcov we collect
the coverage of all compiled files and merge them later into the final
report. This way we can see which files are built but never executed
by the test suite.
Because the --initial switch also collects files in the ccache directory
we have to point it to the build directory instead, which in turn breaks
--no-external. Instead of using --no-external in the collection step,
filter out any files not in the source tree in the final coverage job
through a path filter.
This requires meson >= 0.47.0 otherwise building the doc fails:
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3379
While at it, no need to to pass --prefix --libdir to meson, other CIs
don't have them.
PCRE >= 8.31 is required for PCRE_INFO_MAXLOOKBEHIND usage, introduced
in commit 6fbb146342 (2013/07).
regex can also make use of the PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS feature from PCRE
8.34, but this is optional and properly guarded already.
They’re all 8 bytes long, and integer constants that large need a suffix
on 32-bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/977
Philip Withnall suggests that glib should treat all negative
file descriptors as unset/invalid, rather than explicitly requiring
them to be -1.
This can simplify the logic for some users of this code.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/132
