GLib Reference Manual

for GLib 2.53.6 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at https://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/.

GLib Overview
  Compiling the GLib package — How to compile GLib itself
  Cross-compiling the GLib package — How to cross-compile GLib
  Writing GLib Applications — General considerations when programming with GLib
  Compiling GLib Applications — How to compile your GLib application
  Running GLib Applications — How to run and debug your GLib application
  Changes to GLib — Incompatible changes made between successing versions of GLib
  Mailing lists and bug reports — Getting help with GLib
GLib Fundamentals
  Version Information — variables and functions to check the GLib version
  Basic Types — standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability
  Standard Macros — commonly-used macros
  Type Conversion Macros — portably storing integers in pointer variables
  Byte Order Macros — a portable way to convert between different byte orders
  Bounds-checking integer arithmetic — a set of helpers for performing checked integer arithmetic
  Numerical Definitions — mathematical constants, and floating point decomposition
  Miscellaneous Macros — specialized macros which are not used often
  Atomic Operations — basic atomic integer and pointer operations
GLib Core Application Support
  The Main Event Loop — manages all available sources of events
  Threads — portable support for threads, mutexes, locks, conditions and thread private data
  Thread Pools — pools of threads to execute work concurrently
  Asynchronous Queues — asynchronous communication between threads
  Dynamic Loading of Modules — portable method for dynamically loading 'plug-ins'
  Memory Allocation — general memory-handling
  Memory Slices — efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory
  IO Channels — portable support for using files, pipes and sockets
  Error Reporting — a system for reporting errors
  Warnings and Assertions
  Message Output and Debugging Functions — functions to output messages and help debug applications
GLib Utilities
  String Utility Functions — various string-related functions
  Character Set Conversion — convert strings between different character sets
  Unicode Manipulation — functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings
  Base64 Encoding — encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
  Data Checksums — computes the checksum for data
  Secure HMAC Digests — computes the HMAC for data
  Internationalization — gettext support macros
  Date and Time Functions — calendrical calculations and miscellaneous time stuff
  GTimeZone — a structure representing a time zone
  GDateTime — a structure representing Date and Time
  Random Numbers — pseudo-random number generator
  Hook Functions — support for manipulating lists of hook functions
  Miscellaneous Utility Functions — a selection of portable utility functions
  Lexical Scanner — a general purpose lexical scanner
  Timers — keep track of elapsed time
  Spawning Processes — process launching
  File Utilities — various file-related functions
  URI Functions — manipulating URIs
  Hostname Utilities — Internet hostname utilities
  Shell-related Utilities — shell-like commandline handling
  Commandline option parser — parses commandline options
  Glob-style pattern matching — matches strings against patterns containing '*' (wildcard) and '?' (joker)
  Perl-compatible regular expressions — matches strings against regular expressions
  Regular expression syntax — syntax and semantics of regular expressions supported by GRegex
  Simple XML Subset Parser — parses a subset of XML
  Key-value file parser — parses .ini-like config files
  Bookmark file parser — parses files containing bookmarks
  Testing — a test framework
  UNIX-specific utilities and integration — pipes, signal handling
  Windows Compatibility Functions — UNIX emulation on Windows
  GUuid — a universally unique identifier
GLib Data Types
  Doubly-Linked Lists — linked lists that can be iterated over in both directions
  Singly-Linked Lists — linked lists that can be iterated in one direction
  Double-ended Queues — double-ended queue data structure
  Sequences — scalable lists
  Trash Stacks — maintain a stack of unused allocated memory chunks
  Hash Tables — associations between keys and values so that given a key the value can be found quickly
  Strings — text buffers which grow automatically as text is added
  String Chunks — efficient storage of groups of strings
  Arrays — arrays of arbitrary elements which grow automatically as elements are added
  Pointer Arrays — arrays of pointers to any type of data, which grow automatically as new elements are added
  Byte Arrays — arrays of bytes
  Balanced Binary Trees — a sorted collection of key/value pairs optimized for searching and traversing in order
  N-ary Trees — trees of data with any number of branches
  Quarks — a 2-way association between a string and a unique integer identifier
  Keyed Data Lists — lists of data elements which are accessible by a string or GQuark identifier
  Datasets — associate groups of data elements with particular memory locations
  GVariantType — introduction to the GVariant type system
  GVariant — strongly typed value datatype
  GVariant Format Strings — varargs conversion of GVariants
  GVariant Text Format — textual representation of GVariants
Deprecated APIs
  Deprecated thread API — old thread APIs (for reference only)
  Caches — caches allow sharing of complex data structures to save resources
  Relations and Tuples — tables of data which can be indexed on any number of fields
  Automatic String Completion — support for automatic completion using a group of target strings
GLib Tools
  glib-gettextize — gettext internationalization utility
  gtester — test running utility
  gtester-report — test report formatting utility
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