Glib cannot be built statically on Windows because glib, gobject and gio
modules need to perform specific initialization when DLL are loaded and
cleanup when unloaded. Those initializations and cleanups are performed
using the DllMain function which is not called with static builds.
Issue is known for a while and solutions were already proposed but never
merged (see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/692). Last
patch is from version 2.36.x and since then the
"constructor/destructor" mechanism has been implemented and used in
other part of the system.
This patch takes back the old idea and updates it to the last version of
glib to allow static compilation on Windows.
WARNING: because DllMain doesn't exist anymore in static compilation
mode, there is no easy way of knowing when a Windows thread finishes.
This patch implements a workaround for glib threads created by calling
g_thread_new(), so all glib threads created through glib API will behave
exactly the same way in static and dynamic compilation modes.
Unfortunately, Windows threads created by using CreateThread() or
_beginthread/ex() will not work with glib TLS functions. If users need
absolutely to use a thread NOT created with glib API under Windows and
in static compilation mode, they should not use glib functions within
their thread or they may encounter memory leaks when the thread finishes.
This should not be an issue as users should use exclusively the glib API
to manipulate threads in order to be cross-platform compatible and this
would be very unlikely and cumbersome that they may mix up Windows native
threads API with glib one.
Closes#692
When rendering the contents of the GLib documentation stored inside the
introspection data, a common behaviour is to take the first paragraph as
a summary of the symbol being documented.
The documentation is assumed to be in Markdown format, which means:
- paragraphs must be separated by newlines
- lines that have an indentation of four or more spaces are considered
code blocks
- lines that start with a `#` are considered titles
This means we need to slightly tweak the documentation in our sources to
ensure that it can be rendered appropriately by tools that are not
gtk-doc.
See issue: #2365
We want to have the ability to mark types that should not be derivable
even if they are in a deeply derivable type hierarchy; in other words,
leaf nodes in the types tree.
Convert all the call sites which use `g_memdup()`’s length argument
trivially (for example, by passing a `sizeof()`), so that they use
`g_memdup2()` instead.
In almost all of these cases the use of `g_memdup()` would not have
caused problems, but it will soon be deprecated, so best port away from
it.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2319
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)
| ^~
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++)
| ^
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
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++)
| ^
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_;} \
| ^~~
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
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
This function returns the most specific instantiatable type
that is a prerequisite for a given interface.
This type is necessary in particular when dealing with GValues
because a GValue contains an instance of a type.
This commit includes tests for the new API.
Rather than using a mixture of ‘instantiable’ and ‘instantiatable’
everywhere, standardise on the term which is already in the public API.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
This was mostly machine generated with the following command:
```
codespell \
--builtin clear,rare,usage \
--skip './po/*' --skip './.git/*' --skip './NEWS*' \
--write-changes .
```
using the latest git version of `codespell` as per [these
instructions](https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell#user-content-updating).
Then I manually checked each change using `git add -p`, made a few
manual fixups and dropped a load of incorrect changes.
There are still some outdated or loaded terms used in GLib, mostly to do
with git branch terminology. They will need to be changed later as part
of a wider migration of git terminology.
If I’ve missed anything, please file an issue!
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Some editors automatically remove trailing blank lines, or
automatically add a trailing newline to avoid having a trailing
non-blank line that is not terminated by a newline. To avoid unrelated
whitespace changes when users of such editors contribute to GLib,
let's pre-emptively normalize all files.
Unlike more intrusive whitespace normalization like removing trailing
whitespace from each line, this seems unlikely to cause significant
issues with cherry-picking changes to stable branches.
Implemented by:
find . -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | \
xargs -0 perl -0777 -p -i -e 's/\n+\z//g; s/\z/\n/g'
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
There is (at most) a single GType that is instantiable and a
prerequisite for an interface. This function returns that type.
This type is necessary in particular when dealing with GValues because a
GValue contains an instance of a type.
The previous documentation said this:
g_type_add_interface_static:
"Adds the static interface_type to instantiable_type"
g_type_add_interface_dynamic:
"Adds the dynamic interface_type to instantiable_type"
The above suggests that if one is adding a static interface to a dynamic
object, one should use g_type_add_interface_static because the interface
is static, but the code and usage (with the newly added
G_IMPLEMENTS_INTERFACE_DYNAMIC) imply that this is wrong, and that
what matters is whether the *instanciable_type* is dynamic or not.
Hence this patch moves the "static" and "dynamic" words close to
"instantiable_type".
Closes issue #259
These have all been documented as deprecated for a long time, but we’ve
never had a way to programmatically mark them as deprecated. Do that
now.
This is based on the list of deprecations from the reverted commit
80fcb1bc2.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #638
It's been 4 years and 8 development cycles since we introduced
G_ADD_PRIVATE and offset-based private data access. It is now
time to finally deprecate the old mechanism.
Closes: #699
It's mostly not used anymore and doesn't do what it says it does.
The docs state that it affects GList, GSList, GNode, GMemChunks, GSignal,
GType n_preallocs and GBSearchArray while:
* GList, GSList and GNode use GSlice and are not affected
* GMemChunks is gone
* GType npreallocs is ignored
It also states that it can be used to force the usage of g_malloc/g_free,
which is handled by G_SLICE=always-malloc now.
The only places where it's used is in signal handling through GBSearchArray
and in GValueArray (deprecated). Since it's unlikely that anyone wants to
reduce allocation sizes just for those cases remove the build option.
valgrind.h is a verbatim copy taken from Valgrind project. Previously
that file had local changes that got dropped by last update. To avoid
regressing again, do not edit valgrind.h anymore and instead add a
gvalgrind.h wrapper that gets included instead.
This fix 2 errors:
- uintptr_t is not defined when including valgrind.h on mingw.
- MSVC compiler is not supported on amd64-Win64 platform.
Conceptually, these functions clearly ought to be fine for a const
structure. This avoids _G_TYPE_CVH (the implementation of
G_TYPE_CHECK_VALUE_TYPE, G_VALUE_HOLDS, G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOXED etc.)
needing to cast to a mutable GValue, which causes
G_VALUE_HOLDS (cv, type) to issue warnings under gcc -Wcast-qual if
cv is a const GValue *.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734479
glibc string.h declares memcpy() with attribute(nonnull(1,2)), causing
calls with NULL arguments to be treated as undefined behaviour.
This is consistent with ISO C99 and C11, which state that passing 0
to string functions as an array length does not remove the requirement
that the pointer to the array is a valid pointer.
gcc -fsanitize=undefined catches this while running OSTree's test suite.
Similarly, running the GLib test suite reports similar issues for
qsort(), memmove(), memcmp().
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775510
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters
If we have an input parameter (or return value) we need to use (nullable).
However, if it is an (inout) or (out) parameter, (optional) is sufficient.
It looks like (nullable) could be used for everything according to the
Annotation documentation, but (optional) is more specific.
historically, DEBUG_CODE(gtype.c) and IF_DEBUG(gobject.c, gsignal.c)
macros are used to support debugging messages about object bookkeeping
and signal emission.
DEBUG_CODE has never been used in gtype.c. IF_DEBUG, when used, must be
accompanied by an extra #ifdef G_ENABLE_DEBUG. this is cumbersome.
this patch add a new macro GOBJECT_IF_DEBUG based on DEBUG_CODE as
a replacement for both DEBUG_CODE and IF_DEBUG.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729914
Add various (nullable) and (optional) annotations which were missing
from a variety of functions. Also port a couple of existing (allow-none)
annotations in the same files to use (nullable) and (optional) as
appropriate instead.
Secondly, add various (not nullable) annotations as needed by the new
default in gobject-introspection of marking gpointers as (nullable). See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729660.
This includes adding some stub documentation comments for the
assertion macro error functions, which weren’t previously documented.
The new comments are purely to allow for annotations, and hence are
marked as (skip) to prevent the symbols appearing in the GIR file.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719966
It seems that VS 2015 optimizes out the constructor on windows,
so it is better to use a DllMain to initialize the library
and keep using a normal constructor on the other platforms.
This research was done by Arnav Singh.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752837
Make it a little easier to find the GType conventions page, which I
guess should be the canonical guide to how to name things.
This adds a brief mention of the valid characters in a type name to the
conventions page.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743018
Restricting the number of children to be less than 4095 can
be an issue when generating types. This is also an issue for
the Lua bindings as each Lua state will create a new GType each
time the Lua code is executed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747882
Add GOBJECT_DEBUG=instance-count which enables internal accounting
of the number of instances of each GType, and g_type_get_instance_count()
to retrieve the result.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354457
Not all instances have a TypeNode associated (e.g. GstEvent), so lets check if node is available
before trying to use it.
This crash can be easily reproduced by creating an event with gst_event_new_eos and using
G_IS_OBJECT on the event instance.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733982
