This new API does the same thing as gi_type_info_extract_ffi_return_value,
but takes a GITypeTag instead of GITypeInfo pointer, and additionally a
GIInfoType if the GITypeTag is GI_TYPE_TAG_INTERFACE. (These pieces of
data are the only things used from the GITypeInfo structure.)
It's intended for bindings using an argument cache, such as GJS and
PyGObject, so that they don't have to store a whole 64-bit GITypeInfo
pointer in their cache in many common cases, and can just store the 5-bit
type tag instead, or the 5-bit interface type in case of
GI_TYPE_TAG_INTERFACE.
The original gi_type_info_extract_ffi_return_value() is reimplemented in
terms of the new gi_type_tag_extract_ffi_return_value().
Commit 6bab939bf ("girffi.c: fix return value for g_callable_info_prepare_closure()")
effectively changes semantics of return value from code pointer to data pinter (closure).
`gjs` (and probably other software) relies on old (incorrect) semantics of
g_callable_info_prepare_closure(): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/issues/428
This change exposes the API that allows extracting directly
callacble code pointer. `gjs` will have to adapt to the new API.
Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
This adds a header to the girepository library, which is then included
either directly or indirectly by the other headers so that all the public
symbols (and the 2 symbols in gitypelib-internal.h used by the tools) are
decorated by a macro, that can later be used to export the symbols and also
to be used to display compile-time warnings for usage of deprecated APIs,
which is like what is now being done in GLib (and GTK+, Clutter, and so
on).
This marks the first step that we begin to stop depending on the .symbols/
.def files to export the symbols.
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
Dealing with FFI and return values is very tricky; this API allows
sharing the bits to do it between gobject-introspection and gjs (and
potentially other FFI binding consumers).
**NOTE** I swapped the order of the arguments, under the premise that
out arguments should generally be last.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668902
Rather than having bindings use g_function_info_invoke, which is basically
a toy/demo API, export a convenience utility function which takes the introspection
information and sets up things we need to pass to libffi.
Then invocation can be done directly to libffi by a binding.
As part of this work, remove some (unused by gjs) public functions from the
girffi API, and instead export a function to map to libffi which can work
semi-correctly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604074
Extract a function to convert GITypeTag to ffi_type from the internals
of ginvoke.c. This will be useful in figure out structure alignment.
Also fix handling of gsize and time_t to be portable. (Add a check
to configure.ac to figure out the width of time_t.)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=873
