GLib Reference Manual

Table of Contents
GLib Overview
  Compiling the GLib package -- How to compile GLib itself
  Compiling GLib Applications -- How to compile your GLib application
  Running GLib Applications -- How to run and debug your GLib application
  Changes from 1.0 to 2.0 -- Incompatible changes made between version 1.0 and version 2.0
  Mailing lists and bug reports -- Getting help with GLib
GLib Fundamentals
  Basic Types -- standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability.
  Limits of Basic Types -- portable method of determining the limits of the standard types.
  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.
  Numerical Definitions -- mathematical constants, and floating point decomposition.
  Miscellaneous Macros -- specialized macros which are not used often.
GLib Core Application Support
  The Main Event Loop -- manages all available sources of events.
  Threads -- thread abstraction; including threads, different mutexes, 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.
  IO Channels -- portable support for using files, pipes and sockets.
  Error Reporting -- a system for reporting errors.
  Message Output and Debugging Functions -- functions to output messages and help debug applications.
  Message Logging -- versatile support for logging messages with different levels of importance.
GLib Utilities
  String Utility Functions -- various string-related functions.
  Character Set Conversion -- convert strings between different character sets using `iconv()`.
  Unicode Manipulation -- functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings.
  Date and Time Functions -- calendrical calculations and miscellaneous time stuff.
  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.
  Automatic String Completion -- support for automatic completion using a group of target strings.
  Timers -- keep track of elapsed time.
  Spawning Processes -- process launching with `fork()`/`exec()`.
  File Utilities -- various file-related functions.
  Shell-related Utilities -- shell-like commandline handling.
  Glob-style pattern matching -- matches strings against patterns containing '*' (wildcard) and '?' (joker).
  Simple XML Subset Parser -- parses a subset of XML.
  Windows Compatibility Functions -- UNIX emulation on Windows.
GLib Data Types
  Memory Chunks -- efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory.
  Doubly-Linked Lists -- linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, with the ability to iterate over the list in both directions.
  Singly-Linked Lists -- linked lists containing integer values or pointers to data, limited to iterating over the list in one direction.
  Double-ended Queues -- double-ended queue data structure.
  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, which grow automatically as elements are added.
  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.
  Relations and Tuples -- tables of data which can be indexed on any number of fields.
  Caches -- caches allow sharing of complex data structures to save resources.
  Memory Allocators -- allocates chunks of memory for GList, GSList and GNode.

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