The introspection scanner cannot deal very well with function pointers
into a plain structure. In order to document the various function
pointers in GTypeValueTable we need to create typed callbacks, and
use them to replace the anonymous function pointers inside the
structure. This not only allows us to properly document the function
pointers, but it also allows us to annotate the arguments and return
value of those function pointers.
See also: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/merge_requests/400#note_1721707
Since we have a convenience method to add actions let's allow to remove
them just as easily. This makes resource cleanup as simple as initially
adding the entries.
Adds a helper to truncate UTF8 strings in the middle, allowing to make
them fit certain size constraints.
This function is modeled after similar functionality that has existed
since 2008 in nautilus and in eel before that.
GTK lost it's '+' suffix back in 2019, according to
<https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2019-February/msg00000.html>
This commit can be re-generated with:
git grep -l GTK+ \
| grep -v -e ^NEWS -e ^glib/tests/collate.c \
| xargs sed -i 's/GTK+/GTK/g'
Most of the changes are in comments and documentation.
While x86_64 has enough precision in long double to do a round trip
from guint64 to long double and back, this is platform-specific, and
is a disservice to users trying to debug failing unit tests on other
architectures where it loses precision for g_assert_cmp{int,uint,hex}.
See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788385 which
mentions having to add casts to specifically silence the compiler on
platforms where the precision loss occurs.
Meanwhile, g_assert_cmpuint() does an unsigned comparison, but outputs
signed values if the comparison fails, which is confusing.
Fix both issues by introducing a new g_assertion_message_cmpint()
function with a new 'u' numtype. For backwards compatibility, the
macros still call into the older g_assertion_message_cmpnum() when not
targetting 2.78, and that function still works when passed 'i' and 'x'
types even though code compiled for 2.78 and later will never invoke
it with numtype anything other than 'f'. Note that g_assert_cmpmem
can also take advantage of the new code, even though in practice,
comparison between two size_t values representing array lengths that
can actually be compiled is unlikely to have ever hit the precision
loss. The macros in signals.c test code does not have to worry about
versioning, since it is not part of the glib library proper.
Closes#2997
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
I’ve finally found the right place in the docs to put this stuff.
This doesn’t auto-link this section from every string in the GLib
documentation, but I think that at this point (with gtk-doc in
maintenance mode, and gi-docgen not fully applied to GLib) I don’t think
we can do any better. The perfect is the enemy of the good, and having
this stuff documented somewhere means that someone can link to it from
multiple places in future *somehow*.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #116
By default, if a host environment has the `rst2html5` application
available, builds will automatically perform some HTML documentation
generation from the documentation's glib reference content (e.g.
creating `gvariant-specification-1.0.html`). The creation of this
documentation is not required for all use cases.
This commit tweaks the building of the HTML-based GLIB specification
document to be guarded by `gtk_doc`.
Signed-off-by: James Knight <james.d.knight@live.com>
Without a timeout, some lookup requests can go on forever, typically due
to bugs in underlying systems.
This can have particularly significant effects on the Happy Eyeballs
algorithm in `GSocketClient`, which relies on multiple name lookups as
its first step.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2866
We need a way to initialise refcounted types placed in static storage,
or on the stack. Using proper macros avoids knowing the magic constant
used for grefcount and gatomicrefcount.
The documentation previously implicitly said in a few places that
interfaces are classed, but reading through the implementation of
`GType`, I don’t think they are. If they were, the registration of the
fundamental `G_TYPE_INTERFACE` in `gobject_init()` would specify
`G_TYPE_FLAG_CLASSED`. It only specifies `G_TYPE_FLAG_DERIVABLE`.
I think this makes sense, because you can’t subclass an interface.
Subclassing is a key property of being classed.
Tweak the `GType` tutorial to remove that implicit statement, and expand
the documentation for `G_TYPE_IS_CLASSED`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #252
Keep the API for ABI compatibility.
See
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/merge_requests/2935#note_1650099
for a summary of the reasoning for this change:
- The performance of system-provided allocators has improved since
GSlice was written, and they are now similarly as performant, or more
performant, than GSlice.
- The code is unmaintained and nobody understands it.
- It doesn’t integrate with tooling and system security features which
have been written for the system `malloc()` implementation (such as
sanitisers, valgrind, etc.).
- It’s confusing for developers: should they use `g_slice_new()` or
`g_new()`?
- GSlice is faster than the libc allocator for allocating and
(particularly) freeing linked lists, but since these are a rubbish
data structure, that’s not a great thing to optimise for.
For the cases where application performance is negatively impacted by
the implementation of GSlice being dropped (and we don’t think there’ll
be many), applications can use a drop-in `malloc()` replacement which is
more suited to their particular workload. Choosing an allocator in GLib
to suit all application workloads is not possible.
Including documentation updates and cleanups by Philip Withnall.
Fixes: #1079
Historically GPtrArray made possible to compare pointers of pointers values
that it holds, however this is inconvenient in most cases as it requires
wrapper functions and not friendly castings.
So, add two functions that allow to perform the comparisons between the
pointer values that a GPtrArray holds following the same syntax that we
share everywhere in the codebase.
It allows to create a GPtrArray from a null-terminated C array computing its
size and in case performing copies of the its values using the provided
GCopyFunc.
GPtrArray is a nice interface to handle pointer arrays, however if a classic
array needs to be converted into a GPtrArray is currently needed to manually
go through all its elements and do new allocations that could be avoided.
So add g_ptr_array_new_take() which steals the data from an array of
pointers and allows to manage it using the GPtrArray API.
Add functions to steal all the keys or values from a ghash (especially
useful when it's used as a set), passing the ownership of then to a
GPtrArray container that preserves the destroy notify functions.
GPtrArray's are faster than lists and provide more flexibility, so add
APIs to get hash keys and values using these containers too.
Given that we know the size at array initialization we can optimize the
allocation quite a bit, making it faster than the API using GList both at
creation time and for consumers.
