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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthias Klumpp
1261461840 mkenums: Support public/private trigraphs again
This change was previously implemented in
9ba17d511e but got dropped during the
Python conversion of the Perl script.

See the commit message of this commit as well as
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782162
for more information.
This patch also adds a new test so we don't loose this feature again.
2021-01-10 20:51:54 +01:00
Matthias Klumpp
ca28a3fc29 trivial: Formatting changes 2021-01-10 18:59:45 +01:00
Timm Bäder
423bfa87d5 gparam: Remove pspec_list_remove_overridden_and_redirected()
Instead of collecting more pspecs than we need, just don't add them to
the list(s) in the first place.
2020-12-31 14:58:34 +01:00
Sebastian Dröge
3581eda9a2 gsignal: Allow return types for RUN_FIRST-only signals too
Also adds a test that checks that the G_SIGNAL_RUN flags are handled
correctly and the class signal handler is called at the right times.

Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/513
2020-12-21 17:22:51 +00:00
Sebastian Dröge
9d1455444c gsignal: Add a new GSignalFlag to mark the first run of an accumulator function
Also add a test for signal accumulators. There was none before, and this
one now also covers the new flag.

Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/514
2020-12-21 17:10:19 +00:00
Emmanuel Fleury
6ca38ccdd4 Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:base_object_get_type()
gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c: In function ‘base_object_get_type’:
gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:321:1: error: missing initializer for field ‘value_table’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘const struct _GTypeInfo’}
  321 | static DEFINE_TYPE_FULL (BaseObject, base_object,
      | ^~~~~~
In file included from gobject/gobject.h:24,
                 from gobject/gbinding.h:29,
                 from glib/glib-object.h:22,
                 from gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:21:
gobject/gtype.h:1063:26: note: ‘value_table’ declared here
 1063 |   const GTypeValueTable *value_table;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 23:59:17 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
ff5d09af5e Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:test_iface_get_type()
gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c: In function ‘test_iface_get_type’:
gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:144:1: error: missing initializer for field ‘class_finalize’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘const struct _GTypeInfo’}
  144 | static DEFINE_IFACE (TestIface, test_iface, NULL, test_iface_default_init)
      | ^~~~~~
In file included from gobject/gobject.h:24,
                 from gobject/gbinding.h:29,
                 from glib/glib-object.h:22,
                 from gobject/tests/ifaceproperties.c:21:
gobject/gtype.h:1054:26: note: ‘class_finalize’ declared here
 1054 |   GClassFinalizeFunc     class_finalize;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 23:57:08 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
805053d09b Fix signedness warning in gobject/tests/signals.c:test_introspection()
gobject/tests/signals.c: In function ‘test_introspection’:
gobject/tests/signals.c:1180:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
 1180 |   for (i = 0; i < n_ids; i++)
      |                 ^
2020-12-16 23:26:34 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
176b204754 Fix signedness warnings in gobject/tests/properties.c:properties_get_property()
gobject/tests/properties.c: In function ‘properties_get_property’:
gobject/tests/properties.c:562:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘long unsigned int’
  562 |   for (i = 0; i < G_N_ELEMENTS (test_props); i++)
      |                 ^
gobject/tests/properties.c:583:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘long unsigned int’
  583 |   for (i = 0; i < G_N_ELEMENTS (test_props); i++)
      |                 ^
2020-12-16 23:26:34 +01:00
Philip Withnall
db70edb6ec Merge branch 'fix_more_warnings' into 'master'
Fix more warnings

See merge request GNOME/glib!1773
2020-12-16 11:45:41 +00:00
Emmanuel Fleury
8fb696e003 Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/tests/dynamictests.c:test_module_get_type()
gobject/tests/dynamictests.c: In function ‘test_module_get_type’:
gobject/tests/dynamictests.c:97:7: error: missing initializer for field ‘value_table’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘const struct _GTypeInfo’}
   97 |       };
      |       ^
In file included from gobject/gobject.h:24,
                 from gobject/gbinding.h:29,
                 from glib/glib-object.h:22,
                 from gobject/tests/dynamictests.c:23:
gobject/gtype.h:1063:26: note: ‘value_table’ declared here
 1063 |   const GTypeValueTable *value_table;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 10:56:32 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
34cb225543 Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/gparam.c:g_param_type_register_static()
gobject/gparam.c: In function ‘g_param_type_register_static’:
gobject/gparam.c:1434:3: error: missing initializer for field ‘value_table’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘struct _GTypeInfo’}
 1434 |   };
      |   ^
In file included from gobject/gvalue.h:26,
                 from gobject/gparam.h:26,
                 from gobject/gparam.c:26:
gobject/gtype.h:1063:26: note: ‘value_table’ declared here
 1063 |   const GTypeValueTable *value_table;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 10:56:32 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
dd16d1e879 Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/gtypemodule.c:g_type_module_get_type()
gobject/gtypemodule.c: In function ‘g_type_module_get_type’:
gobject/gtypemodule.c:154:7: error: missing initializer for field ‘value_table’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘const struct _GTypeInfo’}
  154 |       };
      |       ^
In file included from gobject/gtypeplugin.h:24,
                 from gobject/gtypemodule.c:22:
gobject/gtype.h:1063:26: note: ‘value_table’ declared here
 1063 |   const GTypeValueTable *value_table;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 10:56:32 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
12ec1eb062 Fix missing initializer warning in gobject/gtypeplugin.c:g_type_plugin_get_type()
gobject/gtypeplugin.c: In function ‘g_type_plugin_get_type’:
gobject/gtypeplugin.c:91:7: error: missing initializer for field ‘class_init’ of ‘GTypeInfo’ {aka ‘const struct _GTypeInfo’}
   91 |       };
      |       ^
In file included from gobject/gtypeplugin.h:24,
                 from gobject/gtypeplugin.c:20:
gobject/gtype.h:1053:26: note: ‘class_init’ declared here
 1053 |   GClassInitFunc         class_init;
      |                          ^~~~~~~~~~
2020-12-16 10:56:32 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
cc7540909f Fix signedness warning in gobject/gtype.c:iface_node_has_available_offset_L()
gobject/gtype.c: In function ‘iface_node_has_available_offset_L’:
gobject/gtype.c:1288:42: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gsize’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} and ‘int’
 1288 |   if (G_ATOMIC_ARRAY_DATA_SIZE (offsets) <= offset)
      |                                          ^~
2020-12-16 10:56:24 +01:00
Philip Withnall
39f33412db python: Reformat some files to keep style-check-diff happy
The version of `black` on the CI server wanted these changes. Make them
to keep the `style-check-diff` CI job from constantly failing.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
2020-12-12 18:40:57 +00:00
Philip Withnall
181a12c393 gsignal: Add missing (transfer) and (nullable) return annotations
This commit only looks at the `Returns:` lines in the documentation, and
has examined all of them in the file. Function arguments have not been
checked.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #2227
2020-12-11 23:49:30 +00:00
Philip Withnall
c7a7dd9ae3 gparam: Add missing (transfer) and (nullable) return annotations
This commit only looks at the `Returns:` lines in the documentation, and
has examined all of them in the file. Function arguments have not been
checked.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #2227
2020-12-11 23:49:14 +00:00
Philip Withnall
a9e3e3715a genums: Add missing (transfer) and (nullable) return annotations
This commit only looks at the `Returns:` lines in the documentation, and
has examined all of them in the file. Function arguments have not been
checked.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #2227
2020-12-11 23:48:35 +00:00
Sebastian Dröge
e82eb490fe Handle the case of g_object_run_dispose() in GBinding
When this is called on the source or target, the weak notify of the
corresponding object is called without the GWeakRef being cleared.
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2266 for that issue.

This means that a strong reference to these zombie objects can be
retrieved from the GWeakRefs and the previous assumption that this can't
happen was wrong. Remove the assertion for that accordingly and handle
this case.

Specifically, all signal handlers and weak notifies of the object are
already gone and must not be disconnected/removed a second time, or
otherwise memory corruption would be caused. Instead just set the
GWeakRef to NULL and handle it otherwise as if the GWeakRef didn't give
a strong reference to begin with.

Fixes https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2265
2020-12-08 18:41:27 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
a2de4b2479 Clarify in g_object_weak_ref() docs that the callback is called during disposing and not finalizing
This especially has the effect that any GWeakRefs to the object will not
necessarily be set to NULL yet if called as part of
g_object_run_dispose() and not as part of g_object_unref().
2020-12-08 18:09:50 +02:00
Emmanuel Fleury
bbb9ef19ce Fix signedness warnings in gobject/tests/value.c:test_valuearray_basic()
gobject/tests/value.c: In function ‘test_valuearray_basic’:
gobject/tests/value.c:253:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
  253 |   for (i = 0; i < a->n_values - 1; i++)
      |                 ^
gobject/tests/value.c:257:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
  257 |   for (i = 0; i < a->n_values; i++)
      |                 ^
2020-12-05 17:11:55 +01:00
Philip Withnall
5e1d368eec Merge branch 'binding-threadsafe-2' into 'master'
Make GBinding thread-safe (alternative approach)

See merge request GNOME/glib!1745
2020-12-04 14:23:10 +00:00
Sebastian Dröge
52261f0abe Deprecate g_binding_get_source() and get_target() in favour of dup_source() and dup_target()
The old functions are not thread-safe by design.
2020-11-26 19:51:56 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
7367c5d367 Release GBinding transform functions also when implicitly unbinding because source/target are finalized
This was inconsistently handled before and only explicit unbinding or
finalizing the binding would've previously released the transform
function. If the source/target were finalized while more strong
references to the binding still existed then the transform function
would stay alive and only the binding itself would be deactivated.
2020-11-26 19:51:56 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
cc15c933b3 Add tests for GBinding thread-safety 2020-11-26 19:51:56 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
d296ad435d Factor out common GBinding unbind code into a separate function
This was previously duplicated in two places.
2020-11-26 19:30:54 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
98bbe4f4d1 Make transform function handling in GBinding thread-safe
Unbinding can happen from one thread while a property notification is
being handled concurrently in another one.

To solve this, introduce a reference counter for the transform function
that ensures that it always stays valid while in use and protect access
to the one stored inside the binding with the unbind mutex.
2020-11-26 19:30:48 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
1daee6ac64 Make explicit/implicit GBinding unbinding thread-safe
It's possible for g_binding_unbind() to be called at the same time as
one (or both) of source and target are being finalized. The resulting
unbinding needs to be protected with a mutex to ensure that it only
happens exactly once.

As the first reference is owned by both weak notifies and the caller of
g_object_bind_property(), additional indirections are needed to ensure that
unreffing the first reference after creation still unbinds the binding
as before. This seems to be a common code pattern and how this was
intended to be used, but is only safe in single-threaded contexts as it
relies on both the source and target object to be still alive.

Add a lot of comments to the code about all these dependencies and a
couple of assertions to ensure they hold valid.

Also document that inconsistent reference ownership handling of
g_binding_unbind() that makes it unfit for automatically generated
language bindings.
2020-11-26 16:15:36 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
c8c829fa42 Add g_binding_dup_target() and g_binding_dup_source()
These new getters prevent the source/target from simply disappearing if
they're finalized from another thread in the meantime.
2020-11-26 10:49:23 +02:00
Sebastian Dröge
51ee5cf1c2 Use GWeakRef in GBinding
This makes GBinding slightly more thread-safe as the source/target can't
simply disappear.
2020-11-26 10:49:18 +02:00
Philip Withnall
77361ef45e Merge branch 'fix_extra_warnings' into 'master'
Fix more warnings

See merge request GNOME/glib!1765
2020-11-24 15:37:21 +00:00
Emmanuel Fleury
236d6281b8 Fix signedness warnings in gobject/gobject.c:g_object_new_internal()
gobject/gobject.c: In function ‘g_object_new_internal’:
gobject/gobject.c:1962:25: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
 1962 |           for (j = 0; j < n_params; j++)
      |                         ^
gobject/gobject.c:1989:21: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
 1989 |       for (i = 0; i < n_params; i++)
      |                     ^
2020-11-24 16:17:46 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
7753a0492b Fix signedness warnings in gobject/gobject.c:g_object_new_with_custom_constructor()
gobject/gobject.c: In function ‘g_object_new_with_custom_constructor’:
gobject/gobject.c:1836:21: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
 1836 |       for (j = 0; j < n_params; j++)
      |                     ^
gobject/gobject.c:1914:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
 1914 |   for (i = 0; i < n_params; i++)
      |                 ^
2020-11-24 16:17:46 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
d50d2098b5 Fix signedness warning in gobject/gobject.c:g_object_class_install_properties()
gobject/gobject.c: In function ‘g_object_class_install_properties’:
gobject/gobject.c:766:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘gint’ {aka ‘int’} and ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’}
  766 |   for (i = 1; i < n_pspecs; i++)
      |                 ^
2020-11-24 16:17:46 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
e28d9defb1 Fix signedness warning in gobject/gtype.c:g_type_interface_add_prerequisite()
gobject/gtype.c: In function ‘g_type_interface_add_prerequisite’:
gobject/gtype.c:1607:21: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} and ‘int’
 1607 |       for (i = 0; i < prerequisite_node->n_supers + 1; i++)
      |                     ^
2020-11-24 16:17:37 +01:00
Michael Catanzaro
fb6e10c959 gtype: suppress valgrind memory leak warnings
The problem occurs because we keep a pointer inside the allocated block,
instead of a pointer to the start of the block. This memory exists for
the lifetime of the application, so let's silence it.

This is probably abuse of VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK(), which is really
intended for use in memory allocators, but gtype.c already uses it in
two other places, and it's a practical solution. I wrote another larger
fix for this issue that involves keeping an array of extra pointers when
running under valgrind. This is simpler.

Fix suggested by Philip Withnall

```
==180238== 16 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 3,078 of 16,075
==180238==    at 0x483BB1A: calloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:762)
==180238==    by 0x5489495: g_malloc0 (gmem.c:132)
==180238==    by 0x5489754: g_malloc0_n (gmem.c:364)
==180238==    by 0x53FDBEE: type_set_qdata_W (gtype.c:3722)
==180238==    by 0x53FDEE8: type_add_flags_W (gtype.c:3787)
==180238==    by 0x53FC348: g_type_register_fundamental (gtype.c:2662)
==180238==    by 0x53D969B: _g_enum_types_init (genums.c:124)
==180238==    by 0x53FF058: gobject_init (gtype.c:4432)
==180238==    by 0x53FF082: gobject_init_ctor (gtype.c:4493)
==180238==    by 0x4010F29: call_init.part.0 (dl-init.c:72)
==180238==    by 0x4011030: call_init (dl-init.c:30)
==180238==    by 0x4011030: _dl_init (dl-init.c:119)
==180238==    by 0x4002149: ??? (in /usr/lib64/ld-2.30.so)
```

Fixes #2076
2020-11-24 08:10:58 -06:00
Michael Catanzaro
a412ffe4d3 gatomicarray: suppress valgrind memory leak warnings
The problem occurs because we keep a pointer inside the allocated block,
instead of a pointer to the start of the block:

```
==180238== 16 bytes in 1 blocks are possibly lost in loss record 3,086 of 16,075
==180238==    at 0x483980B: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:309)
==180238==    by 0x548942C: g_malloc (gmem.c:102)
==180238==    by 0x54A4748: g_slice_alloc (gslice.c:1025)
==180238==    by 0x53D0AAF: freelist_alloc (gatomicarray.c:77)
==180238==    by 0x53D0B85: _g_atomic_array_copy (gatomicarray.c:133)
==180238==    by 0x53F8E6D: iface_node_set_offset_L (gtype.c:1347)
==180238==    by 0x53F91F1: type_node_add_iface_entry_W (gtype.c:1444)
==180238==    by 0x53F93DF: type_add_interface_Wm (gtype.c:1477)
==180238==    by 0x53FC946: g_type_add_interface_static (gtype.c:2852)
==180238==    by 0x4A3D53A: gtk_menu_shell_accessible_get_type_once (gtkmenushellaccessible.c:26)
==180238==    by 0x4A3D495: gtk_menu_shell_accessible_get_type (gtkmenushellaccessible.c:26)
==180238==    by 0x4C8AC44: gtk_menu_shell_class_init (gtkmenushell.c:424)
```

Note we cannot use VALGRIND_FREELIKE_BLOCK() in freelist_free() because we
have not actually freed the FreeListNode and need to dereference it in
freelist_alloc() to decide whether to reuse the block. That would result
in a use-after-free warning before we would get a chance to call
VALGRIND_MALLOCLIKE_BLOCK() in the reuse path.

Also note that this free list only ever grows: it never shrinks for the
lifetime of the application, so nothing here will ever be truely freed,
although unused elements are eligible for reuse.

Fix suggested by Philip Withnall

Related: #2076
2020-11-24 08:10:58 -06:00
Emmanuel Fleury
6b0552bb89 Fix signedness warning in gobject/gtype.c:type_node_add_iface_entry_W()
gobject/gtype.c: In function ‘type_node_add_iface_entry_W’:
gobject/gtype.c:1379:21: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘guint’ {aka ‘unsigned int’} and ‘int’
 1379 |       for (i = 0; i < num_entries; i++)
      |                     ^
2020-11-22 17:10:53 +01:00
Emmanuel Fleury
f6e234fdb6 Fix signedness warning in gobject/gtype.c:lookup_iface_entry_I()
gobject/gtype.c: In function ‘lookup_iface_entry_I’:
gobject/gtype.c:599:17: error: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: ‘int’ and ‘long unsigned int’
  599 |       if (index < IFACE_ENTRIES_N_ENTRIES (entries))
      |                 ^
gobject/gatomicarray.h:51:8: note: in definition of macro ‘G_ATOMIC_ARRAY_DO_TRANSACTION’
   51 |       {_C_;}         \
      |        ^~~
2020-11-22 17:10:53 +01:00
Philip Withnall
9f041c9e05 Merge branch 'th/gobject-new-parameter-list' into 'master'
gobject: allocate parameter list for g_object_new_valist() entirely on stack

See merge request GNOME/glib!1385
2020-11-21 22:55:55 +00:00
Sebastian Dröge
fa8a39c6c6 Merge branch 'py-fixes' into 'master'
Python formatting improvements

See merge request GNOME/glib!1757
2020-11-20 18:10:40 +00:00
Philip Withnall
47da8ec5d9 gtype: Add some missing atomic accesses to init_state
Half of the references to `init_state` in `gtype.c` already correctly
accessed it atomically, but a couple didn’t. Drop the `volatile`
qualifier from its declaration, as that’s not necessary for atomic
access.

Note that this is the `init_state` in `TypeData`, *not* the `init_state`
in `IFaceEntry`.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:41:07 +00:00
Philip Withnall
041dd8b70b gtype: Fix some typos in comments
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
2020-11-20 14:41:07 +00:00
Philip Withnall
8a112c3c6e tests: Drop unnecessary volatile qualifiers from tests
These variables were already (correctly) accessed atomically. The
`volatile` qualifier doesn’t help with that.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:40:19 +00:00
Philip Withnall
334f695336 gobject: Drop volatile qualifier from GObject.ref_count
This is an API break, but no third party code should be touching
`GObject.ref_count`, let alone in a way which would be changed by the
removal of the `volatile` qualifier.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:40:19 +00:00
Philip Withnall
46bae4f18d gatomicarray: Drop volatile qualifier from GAtomicArray API
This is an API break, but it should not affect third party code since
that code should not be interacting with the `data` member in a way that
invokes its `volatile` qualifier (such as copying to an intermediate
variable).

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:40:19 +00:00
Philip Withnall
08d04d0428 gobject: Drop unnecessary volatile qualifiers from internal variables
These variables were already (correctly) accessed atomically. The
`volatile` qualifier doesn’t help with that.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:40:19 +00:00
Philip Withnall
fab561f8d0 gobject: Drop use of volatile from get_type() macros
http://isvolatileusefulwiththreads.in/c/

It’s possible that the variables here are only marked as volatile
because they’re arguments to `g_once_*()`. Those arguments will be
modified in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Helps: #600
2020-11-20 14:40:19 +00:00
Thomas Haller
fb3977e9b4 gobject: limit required stack by heap allocating parameter list in g_object_new_valist()
The previous code consumed a larger additional amount of stack space.
That is because it would allocate the temporary buffer for GValues on
the stack with "g_newa (GValue, 1)" and thus the required stack
space grew with the number of arguments. Granted, this is already
a variadic C function, so the caller already placed that many elements
on the stack. For example, on the stack there are the property names
and the pointers to the arguments, which should amount to roughly
O(n_args * 16) (on 64 bit, with pointers being 8 bytes large).

That is not bad, because it means in the previous version the stack space
would grow linear with the already used stack space. However, a GValue is
an additional 24 bytes (on 64 bit), which probably more than doubles the
required stack space. Let's avoid that, by allocating the temporary list
on the heap after a certain threshold. This probably more than doubles the
number of possible arguments before the stack overflows.

Also, previously the heap allocated "params" array only grew one element
per iteration. Of course, it is likely that libc anyway reallocates
the buffers by growing the space exponentially. So realloc(ptr, 1)
probably does not O() scale worse than doubling the buffer sizes ourselves.
However, it seems clearer to keep track of the allocated sizes ourself, and
only call realloc() when we determine that we are out of space.
Especially because we need to update the value pointers on reallocation.

Note that we now require a heap allocation both for the "params" and the
"values" list. Theoretically that could be combined by using one buffer
for both. But that would make the code more complicated.

Now we pre-allocate buffers for 16 elements on the stack. That
is (16 * (16 + 24) bytes (or 640 bytes) on the stack. I think that
is still acceptable.
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