Overview of Changes from GLib 2.9.0 to GLib 2.9.1
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* Memory management
- The slice allocator is implemented [Tim Janik]
- g_slice_free_chain() has been renamed to
g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() [Tim, Behdad Esfahbod]
- Mem chunks are deprecated [Matthias Clasen]
* Data structures
- Hash tables are refcounted, and have a boxed type [Tim]
* Thread support
- Support for Solaris threads has been removed
[Sebastian Wilhelmi, Andrew Paprocki]
- g_async_queue_sort(), g_async_queue_push_sorted() have
been added to allow GAsyncQueue to be used as a priority
queue, together with the corresponding _unlocked
variants [Martyn Russell]
* GObject:
- The concept of a floating initial reference has been
moved from GtkObject to GObject [Tim]
* Misc new API:
- G_GUINT64_CONSTANT macro to define guint64
constants [Andrew Paprocki]
- G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT macro to instruct the
compiler to emit a warning if the value returned
by a function is ignored. [Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson]
- GList and GSList now have sort functions which take an
extra user data argument [Martyn Russell]
- g_param_spec_ref_sink() has been added for consistency [Tim]
* $LOGNAME is respected when determining user data. [Laszlo Peter]
* Other changes and bug fixes [Tim, Matthias, Behdad,
Christian Persch, Benedikt Meurer, Andrew Paprocki,
Kazuki Iwamoto, Alexis S. L. Carvalho, Stanislav Brabec,
Andreas Schwab, Kalle Vahlman]
* Documentation
- Deprecation warnings carry version information [Matthias]
- The slice allocator has been documented [Matthias, Tim]
- Other improvements [Morten Welinder]
