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The previous text was technically correct, but not very clear what happens with the ownership of the key/value if it was not returned. Elaborate on the fact, that the key/value is never destroyed, even if not requested by the user. I intuitively expected the function to behave differently, that is, to destroy the key/value if (and only if) it was not returned. That is, when the function does not return a pointer, then it would destroy it. That would seem more consistent to me, where ownership is either transferred to the caller, or the resource destroyed during the steal. On the other hand, the existing behaviors is: - is consistent with g_hash_table_steal() and never destroys key/value. - behaves the same, regardless whether the key/value was returned. So the existing behavior may be better. Just elaborate on that detail in the doc. |
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GLib
GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
The official download locations are: https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib
The official web site is: https://www.gtk.org/
Installation
See the file 'INSTALL.md'
Supported versions
Only the most recent unstable and stable release series are supported. All older versions are not supported upstream and may contain bugs, some of which may be exploitable security vulnerabilities.
See SECURITY.md for more details.
Documentation
API documentation is available online for GLib for the:
Discussion
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- Information about your system. For instance:
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- For Linux, what version of the C library
- And anything else you think is relevant.
- How to reproduce the bug.
- If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
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- If you can reproduce it with one of the test programs that are built
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- Further information such as stack traces may be useful, but is not necessary.
Contributing to GLib
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Patches should be submitted as merge requests to gitlab.gnome.org. If the patch fixes an existing issue, please refer to the issue in your commit message with the following notation (for issue 123):
Closes: #123
Otherwise, create a new merge request that introduces the change. Filing a separate issue is not required.
Default branch renamed to main
The default development branch of GLib has been renamed to main. To update
your local checkout, use:
git checkout master
git branch -m master main
git fetch
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch -u origin/main
git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD refs/remotes/origin/main