glib-docs.sgml

This GLib version 2.16.1. GLib is the low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such

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<book id="index">
  <bookinfo>
    <title>GLib Reference Manual</title>
    <releaseinfo>for GLib &version;</releaseinfo>
  </bookinfo>

  <chapter id="glib">
    <title>GLib Overview</title>
    <para>
GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data 
types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a main 
loop abstraction, and so on. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows,
OS/2 and BeOS. GLib is released under the GNU Library General Public License 
(GNU LGPL). 
    </para>
    <para>
The general policy of GLib is that all functions are invisibly threadsafe with the 
exception of data structure manipulation functions, where, if you have two threads
manipulating the <emphasis>same</emphasis> data structure, they must use a lock to
synchronize their operation.
    </para>

    &glib-Building;
    &glib-Cross;
    &glib-Compiling;
    &glib-Running;
    &glib-Changes;
    &glib-RegexSyntax;
    &glib-Resources;
 
  </chapter> 

  <chapter id="glib-fundamentals">
    <title>GLib Fundamentals</title>
    &glib-Version;
    &glib-Basic-Types;
    &glib-Limits-of-Basic-Types;
    &glib-Standard-Macros;
    &glib-Type-Conversion-Macros;
    &glib-Byte-Order-Macros;
    &glib-Numerical-Definitions;
    &glib-Miscellaneous-Macros;
    &glib-Atomic-Operations;
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="glib-core">
    <title>GLib Core Application Support</title>
    &glib-The-Main-Event-Loop;
    &glib-Threads;
    &glib-Thread-Pools;
    &glib-Async-Queues;
    &glib-Dynamic-Loading-of-Modules;
    &glib-Memory-Allocation;
    &glib-IO-Channels;
    &glib-Error-Reporting;
    &glib-Warnings-and-Assertions;
    &glib-Message-Logging;
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="glib-utilities">
    <title>GLib Utilities</title>
    &glib-String-Utility-Functions;
    &glib-Character-Set-Conversion;
    &glib-Unicode-Manipulation;
    &glib-Base64;
    &glib-Checksum;
    &glib-i18n;
    &glib-Date-and-Time-Functions;
    &glib-Random-Numbers;   
    &glib-Hook-Functions;
    &glib-Miscellaneous-Utility-Functions;
    &glib-Lexical-Scanner;
    &glib-Automatic-String-Completion;
    &glib-Timers;
    &glib-Spawn;
    &glib-Fileutils;
    &glib-Uri;
    &glib-Shell;
    &glib-Option;
    &glib-Pattern-Matching;
    &glib-Regex;
    &glib-Markup;
    &glib-Keyfile;
    &glib-Bookmarkfile;
    &glib-Testing;
    &glib-Windows-Compatibility-Functions;
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="glib-data-types">
    <title>GLib Data Types</title>
    &glib-Memory-Slices;
    &glib-Memory-Chunks;
    &glib-Doubly-Linked-Lists;
    &glib-Singly-Linked-Lists;
    &glib-Double-ended-Queues;
    &glib-Sequences;
    &glib-Trash-Stacks;
    &glib-Hash-Tables;
    &glib-Strings;
    &glib-String-Chunks;
    &glib-Arrays;
    &glib-Pointer-Arrays;
    &glib-Byte-Arrays;
    &glib-Balanced-Binary-Trees;
    &glib-N-ary-Trees;
    &glib-Quarks;
    &glib-Keyed-Data-Lists;
    &glib-Datasets;
    &glib-Relations-and-Tuples;
    &glib-Caches;
    &glib-Memory-Allocators;
  </chapter>

  <chapter id="tools">
    <title>GLib Tools</title>

    &glib-gettextize;
  </chapter>

  <index>
    <title>Index</title>
  </index>
  <index role="deprecated">
    <title>Index of deprecated symbols</title>
  </index>
  <index role="2.2">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.2</title>
  </index>
  <index role="2.4">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.4</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.6">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.6</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.8">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.8</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.10">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.10</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.12">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.12</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.14">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.14</title>
  </index>  
  <index role="2.16">
    <title>Index of new symbols in 2.16</title>
  </index>  

</book>