for GLib 2.28.8 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/.


GLib Overview
Compiling the GLib package — How to compile GLib itself
Cross-compiling the GLib package — How to cross-compile 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
Regular expression syntax — Syntax and semantics of the regular expressions supported by GRegex
Mailing lists and bug reports — Getting help with GLib
GLib Fundamentals
Version Information
Basic Types
Limits of Basic Types
Standard Macros
Type Conversion Macros
Byte Order Macros
Numerical Definitions
Miscellaneous Macros
Atomic Operations — basic atomic integer and pointer operations
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
Memory Allocation — general memory-handling
IO Channels — portable support for using files, pipes and sockets
Error Reporting
Warnings and Assertions
Message Logging
GLib Utilities
String Utility Functions
Character Set Conversion — Convert strings between different character sets
Unicode Manipulation
Base64 Encoding — encodes and decodes data in Base64 format
Data Checksums — Computes the checksum for data
I18N
Date and Time Functions
GTimeZone — A structure representing a time zone
GDateTime — A structure representing Date and Time
Random Numbers — pseudo-random number generator
Hook Functions
Miscellaneous Utility Functions
Lexical Scanner
Automatic String Completion — support for automatic completion using a group of target strings
Timers — keep track of elapsed time
Spawning Processes
File Utilities
URI Functions — URI Functions
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
Simple XML Subset Parser — parses a subset of XML
Key-value file parser
Bookmark file parser — parses files containing bookmarks
Testing
Windows Compatibility Functions
GLib Data Types
Memory Slices
Memory Chunks — deprecated 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
Sequences — scalable lists
Trash Stacks
Hash Tables — associations between keys and values so that given a key the value can be found quickly
Strings
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 — deprecated way to allocate chunks of memory for GList, GSList and GNode
GVariantType — introduction to the GVariant type system
GVariant — strongly typed value datatype
GVariant Format Strings
GVariant Text Format
GLib Tools
glib-gettextize — gettext internationalization utility
gtester — test running utility
gtester-report — test report formatting utility
Index
Index of deprecated symbols
Index of new symbols in 2.2
Index of new symbols in 2.4
Index of new symbols in 2.6
Index of new symbols in 2.8
Index of new symbols in 2.10
Index of new symbols in 2.12
Index of new symbols in 2.14
Index of new symbols in 2.16
Index of new symbols in 2.18
Index of new symbols in 2.20
Index of new symbols in 2.22
Index of new symbols in 2.24
Index of new symbols in 2.26
Index of new symbols in 2.28
Annotation Glossary