2000-09-30 Martin Baulig <baulig@suse.de>
* configure.in (HAVE_THREADS): New automake conditional.
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Only compile the gthread subdirectory if we
actually have threads.
2000-09-29 Martin Baulig <baulig@suse.de>
* Makefile.am (pkgconfigdir): Set this to `$(libexecdir)/pkgconfig';
this is the directory where pkg-config actually looks.
* *.pc.in: Made the pkg-config scripts actually work.
Sun Sep 10 12:37:40 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* glib.h gconvert.c (g_convert): Havoc Pennington's implementation
of convenient character set conversion using iconv, with
the addition of GError. We probably need a fallback that
just does conversions between, say UTF-8,16,32 and ISO-8859-1
for targets without iconv at all.
Also add g_convert_with_fallback() to take care of conversions
where we accept some loss going to the target encoding.
2000-07-15 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Include the "build" module in GLib, too,
to make it more self-contained. If your CVS client doesn't
automatically get it, do a cvs get build in glib.
* */makefile.mingw.in: Include make.mingw from build in the glib
source directory.
Fri Jul 14 12:22:49 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* configure.in Makefile.am glib-config.m4 glib.m4: Move
glib-config to glib-config-2.0 move glib.m4 to
glib-2.0.m4
* Makefile.am gobject/Makefile.am gmodule/Makefile.am
gthread/Makefile.am tests/Makefile.am: Change
library names to libglib-1.3.la, etc, so that we
can distinguish glib-1.2 and glib-2.0 on the linkline.
* Makefile.am gobject/Makefile.am gmodule/Makefile.am:
Move include files into /usr/include/glib-2.0.
Thu Jul 6 18:54:49 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove info files
from the build.
2000-07-12 Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
* glib.h: #include <gerror.h>
* Makefile.am (include_HEADERS): Add gerror.h
(libglib_la_SOURCES): Add gbacktrace.c
* gbacktrace.c: Move g_on_error_query() in here (moved on the
server, so history is preserved)
* gerror.h: GError interface
* gerror.c: GError implementation replaces stuff that's now in
gbacktrace.c
Thu Jul 6 15:35:28 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* Release 1.3.1
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Dist fixes.
* configure.in: Moderate the warnings just a little bit.
Thu Jun 29 15:57:28 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* NEWS: updated
* Makefile.am: added snapcheck target to go along with snapshot
* gstring.c glib.h (g_string_hash): Add g_string_hash to
go along with g_string_equal.
Tue Jun 27 12:40:23 EDT 2000 David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com>
* glib.h: Added g_string_equal for comparing GStrings;
changed g_str_equal so it returns gboolean (instead of gint).
* gstring.c: Modified GString implementation to support embedded
ASCII NUL ('\0') characters, and implemented g_string_equal.
* testglib.c tests/string-test.c: Added tests for g_string_equal
and tests for proper handling of embedded ASCII NUL characters.
Wed Jun 21 12:09:03 2000 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* gunicode.h gutf8.c guniprop.c gunidecomp.[ch] gunichartables.h
Makefile.am glib.h: Initial pass at adding unicode support
functions. A few things still need to be implemented, a bit
of cleanup needs to be done, tests need to be added, and
the docs need to be finished, but this should allow replacing
most or all use of libunicode.
2000-05-13 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* makefile.mingw.in
* tests/makefile.mingw.in
* build-dll: Rename makefile.cygwin(.in) to
makefile.mingw(.in), which better describes what it is. Move the
build of gmodule, gthread and gobject DLLs to makefiles in those
directories. Move resource file handling and build number bump to
build-dll, where it sits much cleaner.
* README.win32
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Update accordingly.
* glib.h: Add G_PI, G_PI_2, G_PI_4, G_E, G_LN2, G_LN10 and
G_SQRT2. M_PI etc aren't necessarily in <math.h> in strict ISO C
implementations.
* glib.def: Add g_strcanon.
* gtree.c (g_tree_node_rotate_left): Remove unused variables.
* gwin32.c (g_win32_opendir): Remove unneeded statement.
gmodule:
* makefile.mingw.in: New file, with gmodule stuff
moved from ../makefile.mingw.in.
* Makefile.am: Add to EXTRA_DIST, and add rule to make makefile.mingw.
gobject:
* makefile.mingw.in
* gobject.def
* gobject.rc.in: New files, for Win32 (mingw) build.
* Makefile.am: Add to EXTRA_DIST. Add rules to produce the
corresponding non-*.in files.
* gtype.h: (Win32:) Mark _g_type_fundamental_last for
export/import from DLL.
gthread:
* makefile.mingw.in: New file, with gthread stuff moved from
../makefile.mingw.in.
* Makefile.am: Add to EXTRA_DIST, add rule to build makefile.mingw.
Fri Apr 28 23:54:35 2000 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* setup things for a new sub-library libgobject:
* Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): added gobject
* glib-config.in: feature -lgobject.
* configure.in (AC_OUTPUT): generate gobject/Makefile.
* glib.m4 (AM_PATH_GLIB): feature gobject module.
* glib.spec.in: added %{prefix}/lib/libgobject-1.3.so.*
Fri Apr 28 21:41:49 2000 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* glib.h: added G_STRLOC macro.
G_STRUCT_OFFSET(): signedness corrections.
(G_CSET_DIGITS): list 0-9.
* gscanner.c (g_scanner_config_template): use G_CSET_DIGITS.
* glib.h:
* gstrfuncs.c:
(g_strdown):
(g_strup):
(g_strreverse): return the modified string instead of void, so
calls to these functions can be nested.
(g_strcanon): new function, canonicalizes string according to
a given character set.
Fri Apr 28 19:45:16 2000 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* gasyncqueue.c (g_async_queue_unref): get rid of an unused variable.
2000-04-28 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* gasyncqueue.c: New File implementing an asynchronous queue to be
used for asynchronous inter-thread communication.
* gthreadpool.c: New File implementing a thread pool to be used
for distributing work among several threads.
* glib.h: Added the type and function declarations for these two
types.
* tests/threadpool-test.c: New File implementing a test for the
thread pool. This also checks the asynchronous queue underlying
the thread pool.
* tests/Makefile.am: Changed accordingly.
2000-03-24 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* Makefile.am, gthread/Makefile.am, gmodule/Makefile.am,
tests/Makefile.am: Added various win32 related *.in files to
EXTRA_DIST to let 'make distcheck' procude all the corresponding
files, which it silently fails to do currently.
2000-02-05 Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* glib.rc.in gmodule.rc.in gthread.rc.in: New files, for putting
version info in the DLLs on Win32.
* Makefile.am: Generate corresponding *.rc files and distribute
them.
* makefile.cygwin.in: Add rules to automatically bump a "build
number" in the version info in the rc files each time the DLL is
built. But do this only for the person who releases binaries. If
others build the DLLs, the build number is set to zero.
Thu Aug 26 15:09:36 1999 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* Makefile.am:
* gmodule/Makefile.am:
* gthread/Makefile.am: added --export-dynamic so we can load dynmic
modules, (required, according to the libtool 1.3.3 docu).
Sat Jul 24 20:11:35 1999 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* merged GLib 1.3.0 with glib-1.2.3 from Fri Jul 16 22:18:36.
* incorporated proposed cleanups from gtk-devel-list.
* bumped version number to GLib-1.3.1
* glib.h:
* gqueue.c:
* gstring.c:
* glist.c:
removed string tokenisation (we got g_strsplit() and g_strjoin()
already) and readline functions.
s/g_list_delete/g_list_delete_link.
implemented g_slist_delete_link.
removed notion of g_ATEXIT() macro in glib.h, this is an *internal*
macro, g_atexit() is provided for public consumption.
added GTrashStack inline utility functions.
reimplement double eneded queues.
removed GStack implementation, people can use a queue or a (singly)
linked list for this task.
deprecated g_strescape(), we need the SunOS variants here.
* gdate.c: added DEBUG_MSG() macro to wrap old messages.
* *.*: CVS merges.
* upgrade to libtool 1.3.3.
1999-06-17 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* configure.in, acglib.m4, acconfig.h, glib.h, gthread.c:
Completed the thread support in GLib. Thread creation,
prioritizing threads, yielding, joining threads as well as
reader/writer locks and recursive mutexes are now in place. Please
test heavily on your platform. It is so far tested on
Linux/i386/pthreads, Solaris/Sparc/pthreads and
Solaris/Sparc/solaristhreads.
* gtimer.c, glib.h: Implement g_usleep (gulong microseconds) for
thread safe sleeping. (sleep() is not MT-safe at all!)
* gutils.c: Avoid compiler warning.
* tests/Makefile.am, tests/thread-test.c: New program to test some
aspects of the thread implementation.
* gthread.c, Makefile.am: Renamed from gmutex.c to reflect the
change of content.
* configure.in: Purged all appearances of nspr.
* gthread/gthread-posix.c, gthread-solaris.c: Added the native
implementations for the GLib's extended thread support.
* gthread/gthread-nspr.c: Removed for good. NSPR is nothing we
would want to build upon.
* gthread/gthread.c: Renamed to gthread-impl.c to avoid
confusion with ../gthread.c (Formerly known as the file called
gmutex.c)
* gthread/testgthread.c: Removed. The new and much extended
tests are in ../tests/thread-test.c.
* gthread/Makefile.am: Changed to reflect the changes above.
* Makefile.am tests/Makefile.am: Correct rules for making the
win32-related files that are made from corresponding .in files.
Is there a cleaner way than explicitly writing rules that invoke
config.status?
* makefile.msc.in makefile.cygwin.in glibconfig.h.win32.in
config.h.win32.in tests/makefile.msc.in tests/makefile.cygwin.in:
New files, used to generate corresponding non-.in files when
making a dist. This is just so the version numbers will be kept in
synch automatically.
* configure.in: Also substitute @GLIB_MAJOR_VERSION@,
@GLIB_MINOR_VERSION@, and @GLIB_INTERFACE_AGE@.
* Makefile.am tests/Makefile.am: Also distribute makefile.cygwin.
* gerror.c (g_on_error_query): On Win32, put up a MessageBox and
then exit.
* glib.def: Add a couple of functions.
1999-04-09 Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de>
* grand.c, tests/rand-test.c: New files to implement the Mersenne
Twister Pseudo Random Number Generator.
* glib.h, AUTHORS, Makefile.am, tests/Makefile.am: Changed
accordingly.
* Makefile.am (glibconfig.h): Make sure `glibconfig.h' exists
after the rule is fired.
(install-exec-local): Install glibconfig.h only if the contents
are different from the currently installed glibconfig.h.
Wed Jan 20 22:09:59 EST 1999 Mandrake <mandrake@mandrake.net>
* configure.in / Makefile.am : made some adjustments for automake 1.4
and autoconf 2.13 (per suggestions made by Raja R Harinath
<harinath@cs.umn.edu>)
* HACKING: new file
* Makefile.am: since we require automake 1.4 now, ditch the build
top-level first and just use SUBDIRS
* gmodule/Makefile.am: use noinst_LTLIBRARIES instead of overriding
the install rule
-Yosh
branch. See the ChangeLog for details of the changes.
In brief overview:
- The set of threading functions can be set
- A default implementation is provided in -lgthread
- All static data structures are locked using these
functions if g_thread_init() is called.
someone does the necessary updates.
Sat Nov 28 12:53:47 1998 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* Makefile.am configure.in acconfig.h giochannel.c
glib.h glist.c gmain.c gutils.c:
- Revised GIOChannel to provide a generic virtual-function
based interface.
- Added unix fd-based GIOChannel's
- Added generic main-loop abstraction
- Added timeouts and idle functions using main-loop abstraction.
this breaks something let me know and I will fix it.
1998-11-30 Havoc Pennington <hp@pobox.com>
* gdate.c: New file, implements calendrical calculations.
* glib.h: Added declarations for GDate module.
INCLUDES is the right way to add to CFLAGS, not DEFS.
Also there are bugs with '+=' in makefiles.
Got rid of DEFS line by moving G_LOG_DOMAIN setting into INCLUDES.
Removed redundant -I from INCLUDES.
This fixes an annoying bug where autoconf's DEFS, which includes
the important -DHAVE_CONFIG_H, was lost. (due to += weirdness)
* Makefile.am (glibconfig.h): New rule.
(stamp-gc-h): New rule. Generate `glibconfig.h'.
* configure.in (AM_CONFIG_HEADER): It is now `config.h'.
(HAVE_BROKEN_WCTYPE): On Solaris, look for iswalnum in -lw before
concluding "broken wctype".
(glibconfig.h): Use AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS to put generation code into
config.status.
* glib.h: Remove a lot of tests and defines. All these have been
moved to `configure.in (glibconfig.h)'.
* gerror.c: Include <config.h>.
* gmem.c: Likewise.
* gstrfuncs.c: Likewise.
* gutils.c: Likewise.
This could cause some short term instability.
Tue Oct 27 03:00:50 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* glib.h: removed dummy structure definitions for struct _GCache,
_GTree, _GTimer, _GMemChunk, _GListAllocator and _GStringChunk.
* gutils.c: implement glib's inline functions _after_ all include
statements have been processed.
removed Tor's MAXPATHLEN check since there already was one supplied
further down in this file.
(LibMain): special cased the #ifdef __LCC__ case for NATIVE_WIN32,
since lcc maybe used on other platforms as well. why in hell is this
stuff required?
(g_get_any_init): for windows, if the user name is supplied, use it as
realname also.
in general, if there is no homedir specified, use the tmpdir that
we already figured.
* gtimer.c (g_timer_elapsed): changed a g_assert() statement to
g_return_if_fail().
* applied glib-tml-981020-0.patch for WIN32 portability, added some
comments and g_return_if_fail() statements, minor indentation fixes.
ChangeLog entry from Tor Lillqvist is appended.
* glib.h (struct dirent): use lower case structure members.
* glib.h:
* makefile.lcc:
* makefile.msc:
s/COMPILING_GLIB/GLIB_COMPILATION/
1998-10-20: Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* README.win32 glib.def gmodule.def
* glibconfig.h.win32 gmodule/gmoduleconf.h.win32:
New files for the Windows port. The .def files list exported
symbols for the Microsoft linker and compatibles.
* configure.in:
Added checks for some platform-dependent headers: pwd.h sys/param.h
sys/select.h sys/time.h sys/times.h unistd.h, and the function lstat.
* gerror.c:
Conditionalized inclusion of system-dependent headers. Changes
for Windows: no gdb to do a stack trace. Just call abort().
* glib.h:
Changes for Windows:
Added macros G_DIR_SEPARATOR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S for
platform-dependent file name syntax elements. Added macros
G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR, G_SEARCHPATH_SEPARATOR_S for
platform-dependent search path syntax conventions.
Added pragmas for Microsoft C to make it more pedantic.
Marked GLib's global variables for export from DLL.
Added the function g_strescape that escapes backslashes.
Added functions g_path_is_absolute and g_path_skip_root to
handle platform-dependent file name syntax.
Added the function g_getenv that expands environment variables
that contain references to other environment variables, as is
typical on Windows NT.
Added the GIOChannel structure which is used to encapsulate the
IPC mechanism used by the GIMP's plug-ins, and possibly other
things later. On Unix a GIOChannel encapsulates just a file
descriptor. On Windows it contains a file handle from _pipe() and a
few other things related to the implementation of gdk_input_add
and GIMP plug-in communication. Subject to change.
Removed duplicate declarations of the version variables.
For the Microsoft compiler, declare own implementation of
ftruncate and the <dirent.h> functions.
* gmem.c:
Define a symbolic name for the profiling table size.
* gmessages.c:
Conditionalized inclusion of unistd.h. On Windows, output using
stdio to stdout.
* gscanner.c:
Conditionalized inclusion of unistd.h. Added changes for
Microsoft C. Added CR to the skipped character set. Added small
workaround for MSC compiler bug in g_scanner_cur_value.
* gstrfuncs.c:
Added the function g_strescape, which escapes the backslash
character. Needed especially when printing Windows filenames.
* gtimer.c:
Conditionalized inclusion of unistd.h and sys/time.h. Added
implementations for Windows.
* gutils.c:
Conditionalized inclusion of platform-dependent headers. Use
the platform-independent file name syntax macros.
Conditionalize code on platform-dependent features. Added the
functions g_path_is_absolute g_path_skip_root and g_getenv.
Added the GIOChannel-related functions. Added
compiler-dependent Unix compatibility functions for Windows.
* makefile.lcc makefile.msc:
New files. Compiler-specific makefiles for LCC-Win32 and
Microsoft C. Only Microsoft C is actually supported currently.
* testglib.c:
Added pathname check cases for Windows. Added workaround for
bug in the Microsoft runtime library. Improved some tests a bit.
Tue Oct 27 04:00:11 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* testgmodule.c (main): changed the #ifdef WIN32 test to NATIVE_WIN32,
this needs to be more constistent throughout the code, do we go for
NATIVE_WIN32 or WIN32?
* gmodule.c (LibMain): special cased the #ifdef __LCC__ case for
NATIVE_WIN32, since lcc maybe used on other platforms as well.
* libgplugin_a.c (LibMain):
* libgplugin_b.c (LibMain):
likewise. not sure i like this special requirement for lcc in here.
* gmodule-dl.c (_g_module_build_path):
feature empty "" directories and prepend the module name with "lib".
* gmodule-dld.c (_g_module_build_path):
* gmodule-win32.c (_g_module_build_path):
feature empty "" directories.
* we need some more magic in the _g_module_build_path variants
so we don't append/prepend lib and .so, .sl or .dll for those names
that already contain it.
* applied patch from Tor Lillqvist for g_module_build_path() and
windows support.
1998-10-20: Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>
* gmodule/gmodule-win32.c:
New file.
* gmodule/gmodule.c gmodule/gmodule.h:
Added the funcion g_module_build_path that builds the path to
a module file, decorating the name according to the system's
conventions. Added the Windows implementation.
* gmodule/libgplugin_a.c gmodule/libgplugin_b.c:
Added LibMain for LCC-Win32.
* gmodule/testgmodule.c:
Handle Windows dll names.
Sun Oct 25 01:24:01 CST 1998 Shawn T. Amundson <amundson@gtk.org>
* Released GLib 1.1.4
* docs/Makefile.am:
* docs/.cvsignore
* docs/glib-config.1:
* docs/glib.texi: Moved docs from gtk and created glib-config.1
from gtk-config.1 in gtk
* configure.in:
* Makefile.am:
* sanity_check: added in docs directory, change rule 'release'
to 'snapshot' and created a new 'release' rule for doing the
distribution. Added in a 'sanity' rule.
* NEWS:
* README:
* INSTALL: Updated for the release
Tue Sep 15 14:57:30 1998 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* Makefile.am glib-config.in l*: Update to libtool-1.2b,
change library versioning scheme to drop LT_RELEASE
from the -l line, while keeping it in the soname.
Sun Aug 16 20:28:27 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* version bump to 1.1.3, binary age 0, interface age 0.
* glib.h: be nice to platforms that don't have gint64 and don't
issue #warning on every compilation. since glib doesn't require
gint64 itself, packages that need gint64 should test for this
themselves.
* glib.h:
* gutils.c: added a new function g_vsnprintf().
Fri Aug 14 16:41:53 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* glib.h: added static inline functions for bit mask tests:
g_bit_nth_lsf, g_bit_nth_msf and g_bit_storage.
Fri Aug 13 14:23:37 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* glib.h:
* gmessages.c:
revised the message handling system, which is now based on a new
mechanism g_log*. most of the assertment macros got adapted to
feature the new g_log() call with an additional specification of
the log level in a preprocessor macro G_LOG_DOMAIN. if G_LOG_DOMAIN
is undefined upon the includion of glib.h, it'll be defined with a
value of (NULL) and thus preserves the original bahaviour for
warning and error messages. the message handler setting functions
for g_warning, g_error and g_message are only provided for backwards
compatibility and might get removed somewhen.
* Makefile.am: feature the G_LOG_DOMAIN macro to set the log domain
to "GLib" upon compilation. we currently have to add this definition
to the DEFS variable.
* testglib.c: we need an ugly #undef G_LOG_DOMAIN at the start
of this file currently, since automake doesn't support per target
_CFLAGS yet.
* glib.h: changed some gints to gbooleans, made a few const corrections,
removed some superfluous G_STMT_START{}G_STMT_END wrappers, added some
in other required places.
* gnode.c:
(g_node_prepend):
(g_node_insert_before):
(g_node_insert):
(g_node_append_data):
(g_node_prepend_data):
(g_node_insert_data_before):
(g_node_insert_data):
(g_node_append):
return (node), so these macros/functions can be usefully chained with
g_node_new().
[GModule]
Fri Aug 14 02:24:39 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* Makefile.am: feature the G_LOG_DOMAIN macro to set the log domain
to "GModule" upon compilation. we currently have to add this definition
to the DEFS variable.
* testgmodule.c: we need an ugly #undef G_LOG_DOMAIN at the start
of this file currently, since automake doesn't support per target
_CFLAGS yet.
Mon Aug 10 02:17:19 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* Makefile.am: minor hack to cause SUBDIRS (gmodule) to be build
last. we do this by making all-recursive-am depend on all-am.
Mon Aug 10 02:18:31 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* Makefile.am (lib_LTLIBRARIES): for now, skip the dependency on
-lglib for libgmodule-1.1.la, libgplugin_a.la and libgplugin_b.la
since this clashes with inter-library-dependencies for not installed
libraries. glib-config takes care of this for the usuall case, but
there needs to be a better way...
Fri Jul 31 22:17:05 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* testglib.c (g_node_test): added a GNode test.
Fri Jul 31 09:08:16 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* Makefile.am: compile gnode.c.
* glib.h:
* gnode.c: added implementation of n-way trees.
* gtree.c (g_tree_traverse): added a warning to the switch() statement
which says that G_LEVEL_ORDER is not implemented.
Fri Jul 10 06:33:43 1998 Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
* glib.h:
* gutils.h: added a bunch of utility/wrapper functions:
g_basename(), g_getcwd(), g_get_user_name(), g_get_real_name(),
g_get_home_dir(), g_get_tmp_dir(), g_get_prgname() and g_set_prgname().
* gutils.c: removed all g_str* functions.
* gstrfuncs.c: moved the bunch g_str* functions from gutils.c in this
place. this file shall never include <stdlib.h> to avoid clashes for
some of the g_str* functions on some OSes.
Fri Jun 12 00:39:28 1998 Josh MacDonald <jmacd@icw.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
* glib.h: add new hash and equal functions g_int_*. complement
g_direct_hash with g_direct_equal.
* grel.c: new file, GRelations implement tuples of N-N mappings.
A comment in glib.h briefly describes the interface.
* ghash.c: new function, g_hash_table_size
* glib.h: new typedefs, gsize, gssize, gtime.
* garray.c: new functions implementing a simplified GArray. This
GPtrArray is an array of gpointers and has functions to add and
remove elements, much like java.lang.Vector.
* garray.c: new functions for the single-byte special case of
GArray. The functions g_byte_array* operate on arrays of bytes.
Internally, a GArray is used.
* testglib.c: tests for g_ptr_array, g_byte_array, and g_relation...
