Plain Old Data (POD) types with or without a representation in the GType
type system can still have a copy and/or a free function. We should
allow annotating these types with their corresponding functions for
copying their data into a new instance, and freeing their data.
From a language bindings perspective, POD types should have a boxed
GType wrapper around them, so they can use the generic GBoxed API to
copy and free instances; from a documentation perspective, though, it'd
be good to have a way to match a structured type, like a struct or a
union, with its copy and free functions.
In order to do that, we add two new header block annotations:
- (copy-func function_name)
- (free-func function_name)
These annotations work exactly like ref-func and unref-func for typed
instances:
/**
* GdkRGBA: (copy-func gdk_rgba_copy)
* (free-func gdk_rgba_free)
* @red: ...
* @green: ...
* @blue: ...
* @alpha: ...
*
* ...
*/
The function is stored in the GIR data as two new attributes for the
`<record>` and `<union>` elements:
<record name="RGBA"
c:type="GdkRGBA"
copy-function="gdk_rgba_copy"
free-function="gdk_rgba_free"
glib:type-name="GdkRGBA"
glib:get-type="gdk_rgba_get_type"
c:symbol-prefix="gdk_rgba">
The annotations are not mandatory.
See: #14
The current offset only considers the fields themselves, but not
the optional embedded type that may follow each field.
Use the existing helper function instead of computing the offset
to fix the issue.
Move things around and rename things until gtk-doc is happy.
This also moves the "Since" annotations to the next stable releases and
adds version added info for g_callable_info_get_instance_ownership_transfer()
and g_struct_info_find_field().
Add find_field utility function for finding a field info by name.
Beyond convenience, this should be faster than manually using
the get_n_fields and get_field functions because get_field does
an additional iteration for each field to calculate offsets O(n^2).
Thus find_field combines the offset and comparison
computations into a single loop O(n).
Based on a patch by Simon Feltman.
This includes config.h in all the C-sources of girepository so that we can
get the correct export directive from config.h during compile time and
therefore export the symbols as necessary, like what GLib and GTK+ is
currently doing.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732669
- require GTK-Doc 1.19
- remove sgml mode
- automatically generate gi.types (needs GTK-Doc 1.19)
- fix https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700025
[WIP] - rearange sections a bit
[WIP] - add gi-building, gi-programming sections
[WIP] - mark missing docs with TODO, which is only marginaly
better than nothing but at least can be grepped :)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571648
