[platform/upstream/glib.git] / ChangeLog.pre-2-10

2006-01-30  David Schleef  <ds@schleef.org>

        * glib/grand.c: Update URL

2006-01-29  Sven Herzberg  <herzi@gnome-de.org>

        * docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/param_value_types.sgml: tell how to
        create container classes which are as flexible as a GValue is

2006-01-27  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version

        * === Released 2.9.5 ===

        * glib/glib.symbols: Add g_mem_gc_friendly as an exported
        variable.

        * NEWS: Updates

2006-01-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmem.c (g_mem_init_nomessage): Fix C99isms.  (#328705, 
        Kazuki Iwamoto)

Wed Jan 25 19:16:57 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * fixed buglets reported by Jens Granseuer in #328254.

        * configure.in: free the memory allocated in posix_memalign() tests.

        * glib/gslice.c: spelling fixes.

Wed Jan 25 16:39:18 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: honour g_mem_gc_friendly settings when freeing
        slices, make sure g_mem_gc_friendly is properly initialized.

        * gmem.[hc]: ensure g_mem_gc_friendly is initialized from G_DEBUG upon
        the first allocation. applied some branching optimizations.

        * docs/macros.txt: reflected --enable-gc-friendly change and
        described ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY_DEFAULT as well as G_DEBUG=gc-friendly.

        * configure.in: changed --enable-gc-friendly=yes to define
        ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY_DEFAULT.

        * glib/garray.c: changed ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY macro #ifdef-s to
        if (G_UNLIKELY (g_mem_gc_friendly)).

        * glib/gtree.c:
        * glib/ghash.c: removed ENABLE_GC_FRIENDLY code which is now taken
        care of by g_slice_free1().

        * tests/slice-test.c: fixed leaks, reported by Kjartan Maraas.

Tue Jan 24 17:49:36 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: only use posix_memalign() if it's known to work,
        revert to memalign() otherwise.

        * configure.in: check for broken posix_memalign() implementations
        to fix #328254.

2006-01-24  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/unicode-encoding.c: Use UTF-16LE as target encoding
        on all little-endian systems.  (#143380, Marc Moorcroft)

2006-01-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Change the shared libary extension for hpux-ia64
        to so.  (#328253, The Written Word)

Mon Jan 23 17:30:33 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gutils.c (_g_getenv_nomalloc): wiped out all the wonderfull
        G_OS_WIN32 code i wrote ;-[) after tml told me windows has getenv()
        as well.

Mon Jan 23 16:46:20 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c (slice_config_init): initialize GSlice config from
        G_SLICE environment variable. we support G_SLICE=always-malloc
        currently, which forces all g_slice_*() allocations to use the system
        malloc instead.

        * glib/gutils.c: 
        g_parse_debug_string(): added a note about not using g_malloc() here.
        _g_getenv_nomalloc(): getenv() variant that doesn't use g_malloc or 
        g_slice. contains only guesswork in the WIN32 branch.

2006-01-18  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * Bump version
        
        * === Released 2.9.4 ===

        * NEWS: Updates

2006-01-17  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gkeyfile.c (g_key_file_get_groups): Correct a g_new0()
        call.  (#327421, Morten Welinder)

2006-01-17  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <seppi@seppi.de>

        * glib/gthreadpool.c: To avoid deadlocks get rid of the settings
        G_LOCK. Use the unused_thread_queue lock instead. Change
        g_thread_pool_thread_proxy such that threads only wait on
        non-exlusive pools for at most a 1/2 second. Do not reorder tasks
        due to superfluous tasks. Global tasks wait at most for
        max-idle-time milliseconds. Make sure, that no task is woken up
        twice for the same event via a wakeup_serial. This fixes #324228.

        * tests/threadpool-test.c: Adapt test accordingly. Do not pass
        invalid NULL into the thread pools. This as well fixes #327290.

2006-01-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version

        * === Released 2.9.3 ===

        * NEWS: Updates

        * glib/gthread.h (g_static_mutex_get_mutex_impl_shortcut): 
        Rework the strict aliasing fix to not break C++, pointed
        out by Murray Cumming.
        
        * glib/gasyncqueue.c (g_async_queue_push_sorted_unlocked):
        Signal waiting threads, problem noticed by Christian Kellner.

2006-01-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        Fix bug 326747, Alberto Ruiz:
        
        * glib/gconvert.c (make_valid_utf8): Change this function to
        replace unknown characters by the Unicode replacement character
        instead of '?', and don't append "(invalid encoding)".
        (g_filename_display_name, g_filename_display_basename): Document
        how to determine if the filename was in an invalid encoding.

2006-01-14  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gtree.c: Replace the simple recursive implementation
        by a nonrecursive, threaded implementation by Maurizio 
        Monge.  (#169285)

2006-01-12  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/asyncqueue-test.c (main): Fix the
        assert to not always trigger.  (#326558, 
        Daichi Kawahata)

2006-01-11  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/convert-test.c: Don't test items_read and
        items_written in error cases where it is not set.

        * tests/asyncqueue-test.c: Set error to NULL.

2006-01-08  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gtree.c: Break some long lines.

        * tests/tree-test.c: Add more tests.

        * glib/gslice.c: Include config.h first, pointed out
        by Bogdan Nicula.

2005-12-20  Sven Herzberg  <herzi@gnome-de.org>

        * docs/reference/gobject/tmpl/gtype.sgml: explain that
        G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_CLASS() does behave different during
        initialization

2006-01-06  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: Only define _XOPEN_SOURCE if we know
        that we have posix_memalign().  (#323937, Bogdan Nicula)

2006-01-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version

        * === Released 2.9.2 ===

2006-01-05  Hans Breuer  <hans@breuer.org>

        * glib/makefile.msc.in : added gslice.obj

2006-01-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * NEWS: Updates

        * glib/gmain.c: Clarify the documentation of source ids
        a bit.  (#325874, Dan Williams)

        * configure.in: Fix another strict aliasing problem.

        * glib/gthreadpool.c: Avoid use of varargs macro.  (#325864,
        Kazuki IWAMOTO)

2006-01-04  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * glib/glib.symbols
        * glib/gstdio.h: don't macroized g_access, g_chdir, and g_unlink
        either, since they have the same issue as g_rmdir. (Related to
        bug #325249)

Wed Jan  4 13:33:25 2006  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib/gslice.c (magazine_cache_pop_magazine): don't reverse chunk 
        order when creating magazines, so we hand out chunks with ascending
        adresses.

2006-01-04  Abel Cheung  <maddog@linuxhall.org>

        * configure.in: Added "ml" "zh_HK" to ALL_LINGUAS.

2006-01-03  Martyn Russell  <martyn@imendio.com>

        * docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt:
        * glib/glib.symbols:
        * glib/gthreadpool.[ch]:
        - Added new API g_thread_pool_get_idle_time() and
        g_thread_pool_set_idle_time(). (#324228).
        
        * tests/threadpool-test.c: 
        - Updated test case to do thread pool sorting, thread pool with
        no sorting and a thread pool with idle thread timeouts.
        
2006-01-03  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
        
        * glib/gmain.h: Add new functions here, too.

        * glib/glib.symbols: Add new functions.

2005-12-20  Michael Meeks  <michael.meeks@novell.com>

        * glib/gmain.c (g_main_context_is_owner): new method
        to determine if the current thread is the owner of the
        context.

2006-01-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/glib.symbols: 
        * glib/gstdio.h: 
        * glib/gstdio.c (g_rmdir): Don't provide g_rmdir() as a macro
        expanding to rmdir, since rmdir is not declared in a portable
        system header we can include in gstdio.h.  (#325249, Jani Monoses)

2006-01-01  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/gspawn-win32.c (g_spawn_sync_utf8): Set the GIOChannels for
        stdout and stderr to unbuffered. Otherwise the giochannel layer
        will try to read from them regardless whether the
        g_io_channel_win32_poll() call here has indicated
        readability or not. (#325310)

2005-12-29  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gutils.c (glib_check_version): Fix a copy-and-paste error
        in the docs.  (#325273, Declan Naughton)

2005-12-27  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * tests/run-collate-tests.sh: use LC_ALL instead of LC_COLLATE, to
        make sure we really override things.

2005-12-27  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
        
        Fix #316221, Michal Benes, Stanislav Brabec;

        * configure.in: Fix a strict aliasing problem in 
        g_static_mutex_get_mutex(). 
        * glib/gthread.h: ...and in 
        g_static_mutex_get_mutex_impl_shortcut().

        * glib/gdatasetprivate.h: Add a cast to silence compiler
        warnings.  (#321978, Andrew Paprocki)

        Partial fix for bug #323937, Bogdan Nicula.

        * configure.in: Check for malloc.h
        * glib/gslice.c: Don't include malloc.h unconditionally.

2005-12-27  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * tests/run-collate-tests.sh: export LC_COLLATE so it takes.
        (#324950, Dan Yefimov)

2005-12-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: On Win32, include process.h  (#325015, Kazuki
        Iwamoto)

2005-12-25  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * AUTHORS: Update my email

        * tests/slice-test.c: Fix C99isms.  (#324950, Dan Yefimov)

2005-12-21  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
        
        * README.in: Add some notes on when 'make check' may fail.

2005-12-20  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/glib.symbols: 
        * glib/gthreadpool.h: 
        * glib/gthreadpool.c (g_thread_pool_set_sort_function): New function
        to sort tasks pushed into a threadpool.  (#324479, Martyn Russell)

        * tests/threadpool-test.c: Test this.

Tue Dec 20 18:14:14 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.[hc]: added mem_error() and mem_assert() to test and 
        handle  errors without depending on gmessage.c which might not be
        setup when the error occours.
        removed G_SLICE_CONFIG_ALWAYS_FREE config option, fixed the code so
        always freeing can be achieved by adjusting the working set time to
        0 with G_SLICE_CONFIG_WORKING_SET_MSECS.
        added G_SLICE_CONFIG_COLOR_INCREMENT to test different color increments
        (mainly 0 and 1). reduced the minimum block size to 128 bytes, to
        minimize wastage if small amounts of differently sized structrues are
        allocated, this does come at a performance cost of roughly 5% though.
        fixed up block alignment calculation, so it works for varying
        block sizes. only use strerror() not g_strerror() since the latter
        depends on working GQuark and GSlice.
        mem_error(): implemented in terms of fprintf and vfprintf.

        * tests/slice-color.c: new program to test cache colorization effects.

        * tests/slice-test.c: trade G_SLICE_CONFIG_ALWAYS_FREE for 0 duration
        G_SLICE_CONFIG_WORKING_SET_MSECS.

2005-12-17  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/goption.c (parse_short_option): Set an error in all
        failure cases.  (#324332, Tim-Philipp Müller) 

2005-12-17  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <seppi@seppi.de>

        * glib/gatomic.c: Fix memory barrier position in g_atomic_int_get
        and g_atomic_pointer_get. Add g_atomic_int_set and
        g_atomic_pointer_set implementations for the !DEFINE_WITH_MUTEXES &&
        G_ATOMIC_OP_MEMORY_BARRIER_NEEDED case, as well as defining them
        as functions (additionally to the macros in the header) for the 
        !G_ATOMIC_OP_MEMORY_BARRIER_NEEDED case.

2005-12-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        *  glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): Don't return a pointer to
        a const struct, since apps expect to be able to modify it. 
        (#324179, J. Ali Harlow)

Tue Dec 13 10:13:32 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gatomic.h: added g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set()
        for systems where the initialization of atomic variables requires a
        write memory barrier.

2005-12-09  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version

        * === Released 2.9.1 ===

2005-12-09  Alexander Larsson  <alexl@redhat.com>

        * glib/glist.h: 
        * glib/gslist.h:
        Use G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT on list functions that return
        the whole list.

2005-12-08  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * NEWS: Updates

2005-12-07  Martyn Russell  <martyn@imendio.com>

        * glib/gasyncqueue.c:
        - Call g_queue_insert_sorted() instead of duplicating the code.
        - Call g_queue_sort() instead of duplicating the code.
        - Invert sort function results to make sure the same sort function
        gives the same results across glist, gslist, gqueue and
        gasyncqueue.

        * tests/asyncqueue-test.c:
        - Updated the sort function to reflect the example in the
        documentation for gasyncqueue.c.

2005-12-07  Martyn Russell  <martyn@imendio.com>

        * docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt:
        * docs/reference/glib/tmpl/linked_lists_double.sgml:
        * docs/reference/glib/tmpl/linked_lists_single.sgml:
        * glib/glist.[ch]: 
        * glib/gslist.[ch]: 
        - Added g_list_insert_sorted_with_data () and
        g_slist_insert_sorted_with_data ().
        - Removed the extra check in g_list_sort() and g_slist_sort() for
        GCompareDataFunc vs. GCompareFunc.
        
2005-12-07  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib-gettextize.in: Look up prefix at run-time on Win32,
        assuming the standard directory structure with glib-gettextize in
        $prefix/bin.

2005-12-06  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmem.h: Exempt GTK+ from the mem chunk deprecation, since
        we need GTK+ 2.8 to compile against GLib 2.10.

2005-12-05  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * tests/run-collate-test.sh: set LC_COLLATE, not LANG, to be sure
        to override any user settings.

2005-12-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Revert an accidential commit

2005-12-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gutf8.c: Documentation updates.  (#323291, Morten Welinder)

        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): 
        * tests/gobject/Makefile.am (TESTS_ENVIRONMENT): Set
        MALLOC_CHECK_ and MALLOC_PERTURB_

        * tests/run-collate-tests.sh: Run the collation tests explicitly 
        in en_US locale. (#320463)

        * glib/gmem.h: Really deprecate GMemChunk.

        * glib/gdate.c: 
        * glib/gutils.c: 
        * glib/gtree.c: 
        * glib/gstring.c: 
        * glib/giochannel.c: 
        * glib/gstrfuncs.c: Add versioned deprecation docs. 

2005-12-05  Martyn Russell  <martyn@imendio.com>

        * docs/reference/glib/glib-sections.txt:
        * glib/gasyncqueue.[ch]:
        - Added support for sorting async queues by with _push_sorted(),
        _push_sorted_unlocked(), _sort() and _sort_unlocked() (#323047).
        
        * tests/Makefile.am:
        * tests/asyncqueue-test.c:
        - Added test case for gasyncqueue.c

Mon Dec  5 15:53:20 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: implement chain walking for arbitrary ->next pointer
        offsets in g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() based on a patch by behdad
        in bug 323178. moved time consuming logic from g_slice_free() out of
        the inner loop, so g_slice_free_chain_with_offset() provides a real
        performance benefit over g_slice_free1() now.
        
        * glib/gslice.h: renamed g_slice_free_chain() to
        g_slice_free_chain_with_offset(). implemented g_slice_free_chain() as
        a type-safe macro as suggested in bug 323178.
        simplified the macro implementation of g_slice_free() and implemented
        it in a type safe manner for all compliers as suggested by Morten
        Welinder <mortenw@gnome.org>.

        * glib/gmain.c:
        * glib/glist.c:
        * glib/gslist.c:
        * glib/glib.symbols: s/g_slice_free_chain/g_slice_free_chain_with_offset/

2005-12-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gasyncqueue.c: Add some docs.

        * tests/libmoduletestplugin_a.c: Fix compiler warnings.

        * glib/gatomic.c: In the ia64 implementation, use
        __sync builtin without _si or _di suffix.  (#321229,
        Stanislav Brabec, patch by Andreas Schwab)

2005-12-04  Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad@gnome.org>

        * glib/gslice.h: Remove comma at the end of enum.

2005-12-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        Handle multiple user names with the same UID better.
        (#319535, Laszlo Peter)
        
        * glib/gutils.c (g_get_any_init_do): When determining user
        data, first look up $LOGNAME. If the UID doesn't match
        getuid(), fall back to the current behaviour of looking
        up the user data based on getuid().

2005-12-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmacros.h (G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT): Add a macro
        to make gcc warn if a function result is ignored.  (#145466,
        Arjan van de Ven, Alex Larsson)

        * glib/gmem.h: Add the new attribute to g_realloc and 
        g_try_realloc.

2005-12-03  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/glib.symbols: 
        * glib/gcache.h: Deprecate g_cache_value_foreach. (#322956,
        Nicolas Caniart)

        * glib/gmappedfile.c: Make mapping of empty files
        work.  (#321530)
        
        * glib/gfileutils.c: Don't fork a new process just to 
        fix the permissions of the created temp file.  (#321318,
        Alexis S. L. Carvalho)

2005-12-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * README.in: Add a note about Solaris threads.

        * glib/gspawn.c:
        * configure.in: Remove support for Solaris threads. 
        (#136971, Sebastian Wilhelmi, patch by Andrew Paprocki)

2005-12-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Define G_GUINT64_CONSTANT in analogy to
        G_GINT64_CONSTANT.  (#322568, Andrew Paprocki)

2005-12-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: Win32 portability fixes and C99ism removal,
        pointed out by Kazuki Iwamoto.  (#323052)
        
2005-12-02  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gatomic.c (g_atomic_int_add): Add a missing volatile for
        the IA64 implementation.

Fri Dec  2 16:18:09 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: some naming and type size fixups.

Fri Dec  2 13:08:58 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib/gslice.h (g_slice_free): reworked GCC-specific type-safe macro
        variant into something less verbose, but digestible for gcc-3.4.

Fri Dec  2 10:55:07 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * tests/slice-test.c: extended to perform the benchmarking on the old
        memchunk code if 'O' is selected.

        * tests/memchunks.c: new file which contains the old GLib mem chunks
        implementation with prefix old_mem_chunk_.

        * tests/Makefile.am: added memchunks.c

Fri Dec  2 00:16:59 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.c: improved gettimeofday() timer resolution by maintaining
        acceptable load distribution of the syscall.
        (allocator_get_magazine_threshold): reduce minimum/single-thread magazine
        sizes to approximately page_size/2.5 to avoid excessive startup allocations.

2005-12-01  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/gobject/ifacecheck.c (test_iface_base_init): Don't
        double-free base interface members.

        * tests/Makefile.am: Remove duplicate variable.

Thu Dec  1 17:32:46 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gslice.[hc]: new slice allocator implementation.

        * tests/slice-test.c: added random slice allocation test.

        * glib/gthread.[hc]: removed newly added private thread mem API.

        * glib/gthreadinit.h:
        * glib/gmessages.c:
        * glib/gthread.c:
        * glib/gmem.c: divided glib threading initialisation into three phases,
        initialisation where private keys and messaging are not available (only
        needed by gmem.c), initialisation without messaging but private keys
        available (gslice.c, gmessage.c), and full fledged initialisers that
        server the rest of glib. initialisation functions got renamed to reflect
        the limitations of their corresponding phases.

        * glib/gmem.c: removed memchunk code, defer allocations to 
        g_slice_* instead.

        * glib/gmem.[hc]: removed g_slice_* skeletons.

        * glib/glib.symbols: added g_slice_* symbols.

        * configure.in: check for availability of posix_memalign(3), memalign(3)
        and valloc(3). 

        * glib/Makefile.am: added gslice.[hc].

2005-12-01  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/gstdio.c (g_stat): In the Win32 implementation, strip
        trailing slash(es) for non-root folders. stat() fails if non-root
        folders are specified with trailing slashes. It's too much hassle
        to demand that callers strip such slashes themselves, especially
        as it is easy to get it wrong and strip the slash of a root
        folder.
        (g_rename): On NT-based Windows, use MoveFileEx() with
        MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING to better match Unix behaviour.

2005-11-28  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        Fix G_STMT_START / G_STMT_END on Solaris.  (#321972,
        Andrew Paprocki)
        
        * configure.in: Check whether do { } while (0) works.

        * glib/gmacros.h: Use do { } while (0) for G_STMT_START / 
        G_STMT_END if it works.
        
2005-11-28  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gthread.c (g_static_rw_lock_wait, g_static_rw_lock_signal): 
        * glib/gnode.c (g_node_depth_traverse_level): 
        * glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): 
        * glib/ghash.c (g_hash_table_unref, g_hash_table_destroy) 
        (g_hash_table_foreach_remove_or_steal): Silence compiler
        warnings.

2005-11-27  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gunicollate.c (g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename): 
        Don't read beyond len.  (#322520, Christian Persch)

Wed Nov 23 17:34:01 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gdataset.c: access datalist flags via atomic pointer access
        functions, instead of acquiring the dataset lock. this is faster and
        also matches the atomic pointer readouts in gdatalistprivate.h and
        direct pointer modifications required by gobject.c.

Wed Nov 23 13:35:31 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib/gdataset.c: streamlined initialization code somewhat,
        removed GData node cache.

2005-11-22  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/ghash.c (g_hash_table_ref): 
        (g_hash_table_unref): Mark these as new API.

        Avoid double locking in g_intern_string (#322133,
        Benedikt Meurer)

        * glib/gdataset.c (g_quark_from_string_internal): New 
        internal function which factors out common parts of 
        g_quark_from[_static]_string.
        (g_quark_from_string, g_quark_from_static_string):
        Use g_quark_from_string_internal.
        (g_intern_string, g_intern_static_string): Use
        g_quark_from_string_internal, and only take the
        lock once.
        (g_quark_new): Don't store the strings shifted by -1
        in the g_quarks array.
        (g_quark_to_string): Adapt to the previous change.

Tue Nov 22 14:04:26 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/ghash.h: 
        * glib/ghash.c: 
        g_hash_table_new_full(): create hash tables with a ref count of 1.
        g_hash_table_ref(): atomically ref_count+=1
        g_hash_table_unref(): atomically ref_count-=1, destroys hash table
        when refcount reaches 0.
        g_hash_table_destroy(): just destroy keys and values, unref by 1.
        g_hash_table_insert(): 
        g_hash_table_replace(): assert ref_count>0.

        * glib/gatomic.h: 
        * glib/gatomic.c: added 'volatile' qualifier to all atomic pointer and
        integer pointers.

2005-11-20  Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad@gnome.org>

        * glib/guniprop.c (g_unichar_get_mirror_char): Remove unused
        variables. (#321984, Andrew Paprocki)

2005-11-18  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version

2005-11-17  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * === Released 2.9.0 ===

        * glib/glib.symbols: Updates

        * glib/gutf8.c (g_utf8_offset_to_pointer): Add some performance
        hints to the docs. (Paolo Borelli)
        
        * NEWS: Updates

        * glib/gthread.c (g_thread_foreach): Mark as new api.

        * README.in: Updates.

        * glib/glib.symbols: 
        * glib/gdate.h: 
        * glib/gdate.c (g_date_set_time_t): 
        (g_date_set_time_val): Add functions to set a date from
        a time_t and from a GTimeVal.
        (g_date_set_time): Deprecate.  (#314067, Roger Leigh)
        
        * tests/Makefile.am:
        * tests/utf8-pointer.c: Unit tests for g_utf8_pointer_to_offset
        and g_utf8_offset_to_pointer.

        * glib/gutf8.c (g_utf8_pointer_to_offset) 
        (g_utf8_offset_to_pointer): Handle negative offsets, and use
        "stutter stepping" for going backwards. (#320638, Larry
        Ewing)

        * glib/gbacktrace.c:
        * glib/gdate.c:
        * glib/gthread.c: const correctness fixes, found
        by Arjan van de Ven and gcc.
        
2005-11-16  Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad@gnome.org>

        * docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml: Correct typo on mentioning
        @G_UNICODE_BREAK_UNKNOWN that should be #G_UNICODE_BREAK_UNKNOWN.

2005-11-09  Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad@gnome.org>

        * glib/guniprop.c: Use bit hacks instead when checking a general
        category value against multiple values.

        * glib/gutf8.c: Change ISO10646 to Unicode in docs.

2005-11-10  Simos Xenitellis  <simos@gnome.org>

        * configure.in: Added tt (Tatar) to ALL_LINGUAS.

2005-11-05  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/giowin32.c (g_io_win32_set_flags): Don't call g_warning().
        (#320688) Instead set error and return failure.

2005-11-07  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmain.c (g_main_dispatch): Don't call cb_funcs->unref
        while holding the context lock.  (#320886, Andy Wingo)

2005-11-07  Billy Biggs <vektor@dumbterm.net>

        * tests/refcount/Makefile.am: Add a missing reference to libglib
        in the LDADD for this test.

2005-11-07  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): We need to set n_preallocs to a
        nonzero value, otherwise GTK+ 2.8 breaks when compiled against
        GLib 2.9.  (#320755, Luca Ferretti)

2005-11-04  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/Makefile.am: Apply a patch from Behdad Esfahbod to 
        use a faster lookup table for g_unichar_get_mirror_char().
        * glib/gmirroringtable.h: The new table.
        * glib/gunichartables.h: Remove bidi_mirroring_table.
        * glib/gen-unicode-tables.pl: Don't generate the mirroring
        table.
        * glib/glib-mirroring-tab/*: Sources for the program
        which generated gmirroringtable.h.

        * glib/glist.c: Avoid some code duplication.

        * glib/gscanner.h: Include gdataset.h.  (#320322)

        * glib/gdebug.h: add new GDebugFlag for fatal_criticals
        * glib/gmessages.c: (_g_debug_init): handle G_DEBUG=fatal_criticals,
        to help find critical warnings in applications.  (#320017,
        Vincent Untz)

2005-11-02  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/glib.symbols: Remove large amount of trailing whitespace
        from one line. Remove #ifdef G_UNDEFINED from around
        g_hash_table_new and g_hash_table_new_full symbols, what was the
        purpose of that? Add the g_slice functions.

Tue Nov  1 16:24:20 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gmem.[hc]: prepared deprecation of GMemChunk and GAllocator.
        added g_slice_*() API to allocate and cache small bits of memory.
        an actuall allocator implementation for g_slice_*() is still pending.

        * glib/gthread.[hc]: changes from a patch by Matthias Clasen.
        changed GRealThread list to use in-structure *next; fields instead
        of GSList, in order for thread iteration to not depenend on g_slice_*()
        indirectly.
        _g_thread_mem_private_get():
        _g_thread_mem_private_set(): added accessors for private memory,
        needed because the ordinary GPrivate implementation relies on GArray
        and GSList and therefore indirectly on working g_slice_*() allocations.

        * glib/gthread.[hc]:
        g_thread_foreach(): new public API function to loop over all existing threads.

        * glib/gdataset.c:
        * glib/gstring.c:
        * glib/gcache.c:
        * glib/garray.c: 
        * glib/gqueue.c:
        * glib/gslist.c:
        * glib/glist.c:
        * glib/ghash.c:
        * glib/gtree.c:
        * glib/ghook.c:
        * glib/gmain.c:
        * glib/gnode.c:
        removed GAllocator and free list usages and accompanying locks.
        use g_slice_*() API to allocate and cache small bits of memory.

        * glib/ghook.h: removed GMemChunk field from public API.

        * glib/gslist.h:
        * glib/glist.h: deprecate allocator API, provide _free1() for consistency.

        * glib/gnode.h: deprecate allocator API.

        * glib/gmain.c: reordered GPollRec fields so g_slice_free_chain() can
        be used for poll rec lists.

        * glib/grel.c: removed mem chunk usage, and allocated tuples via g_slice_*().
        g_relation_destroy(): free all tuples from the all_tuples hash table,
        this effectively maintains the life time track keeping of tuples.
        g_relation_delete_tuple(): free tuples which are removed from the
        all_tuples hash table. this fixes a temporary leak that was present
        in the memchunk code until the destruction of the relation.

2005-10-29  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/convert-test.c: Add some tests for conversions between
        UTF-8, UCS-4 and UTF-16.

        * glib/gutf8.c (g_utf8_to_ucs4, g_utf8_to_utf16): Fix handling
        of len == -1, noticed by Morten Welinder.

2005-10-27  Erdal Ronahi  <erdal.ronahi@gmail.com>

        * configure.in: Added ku (Kurdish) to ALL_LINGUAS

2005-10-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gutf8.c (g_ucs4_to_utf8): Don't set items_read twice
        in the error case, and add some documentation.  (#319806, Morten
        Welinder)

2005-10-19  Manish Singh  <yosh@gimp.org>

        * configure.in: Use AC_CHECK_FUNCS for _NSGetEnviron, to get the
        config.h symbol automatically. Fixes bug #313731.

2005-10-19  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/gwin32.c (g_win32_get_package_installation_directory):
        Return a g_strdup()ed copy of the value stored in the hash table,
        so that it can be g_free()d without leaving a dangling pointer in
        the hash table. (#319232)

2005-10-06  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gunicollate.c (g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename): Handle
        all-zero sequences correctly.  (#317930, Sebastien Bacher)

2005-10-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmarkup.c (g_markup_escape_text): Doc addition

        * Makefile.am: Add Collation tests.

        * tests/collate/*: Inputs and expected outputs for collation tests.

        * tests/run-collate-tests.sh: Script to run collation tests.

        * tests/unicode-collate.c (main): Rework slightly to make
        it usable in unit tests. Also test g_utf8_collate_key_for_filename().

2005-10-01  Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad@gnome.org>

        * docs/reference/glib/tmpl/unicode.sgml:
        * glib/gen-unicode-tables.pl:
        * glib/gunibreak.h:
        * glib/gunichartables.h:
        * glib/gunicode.h:
        * tests/casefold.txt:
        * tests/casemap.txt: Updated to Unicode 4.1.  There are five new
        GUnicodeBreakType types.  That may break some applications, like
        Pango <= 1.10.

2005-09-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gstrfuncs.c (g_ascii_strtoull): Add details to the 
        docs.  (#314393, Matthew F. Barnes)

        * glib/glib.symbols:
        * glib/gprintf.h: Remove g_snprintf() and g_vsnprintf(), since
        they are already declared in glib.h. This doesn't break documented
        use of gprintf.h, but should probably be pointed out in the 
        release notes for 2.10. (#314232, Behdad Esfahbod)

Tue Sep 20 13:16:04 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gpattern.c (g_pattern_ph_match): applied significant recursion
        complexity optimization, based on a patch from Matthias Clasen.

        * tests/patterntest.c: more tests, mostly from matthias.

2005-09-20  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gqueue.c (g_queue_insert_sorted): Correct the docs.
        (#316703, Mark Drago)

Mon Sep 19 17:23:23 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>

        * glib/gpattern.c: applied a patch from matthias which checks on the
        upper bound of GPatternSpec length to optimize matches.
        cosmetic fixups.

        * tests/patterntest.c: added more match cases.

2005-09-16  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/gstrfuncs.c (g_ascii_strcasecmp, g_ascii_strncasecmp): Add
        warning to doc comment that these functions should not be used on
        encodings like CP932.

2005-09-14  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * tests/keyfile-test.c: Add a test for grup names of length 1.

        * glib/gkeyfile.c (g_key_file_line_is_group): Accept group names
        of length 1.  (#316309)
        
2005-09-12  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmarkup.c (g_markup_escape_text): Clarify docs.

2005-09-11  Sebastian Wilhelmi  <seppi@seppi.de>

        * tests/refcount/Makefile.am (INCLUDES): Link the the refcount
        tests to the system thread library $(G_THREAD_LIBS). Fixes #313744
        and #314217.

2005-09-11  Kjartan Maraas  <kmaraas@gnome.org>

        * glib/gmain.c: (g_child_watch_prepare), (g_child_watch_check),
        (child_watch_helper_thread): Remove some dead code. Closes
        bug #315278.

2005-09-07  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/Makefile.am: Create also a console version of the
        gspawn-win32-helper program, gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe.
        It's otherwise identical to gspawn-win32-helper.exe, except marked
        as a console application (linked without the -mwindows option).
        
        * glib/gspawn-win32.c (do_spawn_directly, do_spawn_with_pipes):
        Drop the dont_wait parameter. Its truth value correlated 100% with
        the NULLness of the exit_status parameter anyway, so it's enough
        to check whether exit_status is NULL. Invert the sense of the
        dont_return_handle parameter and rename it to do_return_handle, to
        make the code easier to read by avoiding double negations.

        (g_spawn_sync_utf8, g_spawn_async_with_pipes_utf8): Modify calls
        to do_spawn_with_pipes() accordingly.

        (do_spawn_with_pipes): If we have a console, use the console
        version of the helper program, otherwise use the GUI one. This
        avoids extra console windows opening up in some situations. (In
        case a console application uses the GUI gspawn-win32-helper.exe to
        spawn another console application we would get a separate console
        for the spawned console application).

        * glib-zip.in: Distribute also gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe.

2005-09-05  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gmappedfile.c (g_mapped_file_new): Report an error
        if the file is too large.  (#315275, Kjartan Maraas)

        * glib/gkeyfile.c (g_key_file_load_from_fd): The return value
        of read() is signed.  (#315273, Kjartan Maraas)
        
2005-08-31  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * glib/gutils.h: Wrapping atexit() is a bad idea on Windows, where
        the EXE and each DLL have their own atexit function chains.

        #define g_atexit as atexit instead. This means it has a
        better chance of doing what the caller wants. For instance,
        gtkhtml calls g_atexit() registering a function in gtkhtml
        itself. This caused a crash when g_atexit() was implemented as a
        function in the GLib DLL. The gtkhtml DLL was already unloaded by
        the time the GLib DLL got unloaded.

        * glib/gutils.c: #undef the #define mentioned above, to also get a
        real g_atexit() into the DLL for backward compatibility. Document
        the Windows behaviour of g_atexit(), and document the varying ways
        atexit() can behave in the context of dynamically loaded modules
        on Unix.

2005-08-31  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/glib.symbols: 
        * glib/gquark.h: 
        * glib/gdataset.c: Add string interning functions.

2005-08-28  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/giochannel.c: Unify some near-duplicate strings. (#314654,
        Clytie Siddall)
        
2005-08-26  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Bump version to 2.9.0

2005-08-25  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        Make also the g_spawn*() functions take parameters in the GLib
        file name encoding, i.e. UTF-8, on Windows. Has no impact on Unix
        API or ABI. Like the other GLib API that was earlier changed to
        use UTF-8 on Windows, the names of the functions that take UTF-8
        have _utf8 suffixes added by using preprocessor macros in the
        header file. The old names are kept for functions with the old
        behaviour, taking parameters in the system codepage, for DLL ABI
        stability.
        
        * glib/gspawn.h: On Win32 add the suffix _utf8 to the names of the
        g_spawn*() functions.
        
        * glib/gspawn-win32.c: Use wide-char API on NT-based
        Windows. Convert parameters from UTF-8 to wide chars (NT) or
        system codepage (Win9x) and call the C library _wspawn*() or
        spawn*() functions respectvely. Add DLL ABI stability versions
        that take parameters in the system codepage.

        * glib/gspawn-win32-helper.c: On NT-based Windows use the
        wide-char versions of argv and envp, and use wide-char API to
        change directory and spawn the program to run. Remove the verbose
        debugging output, it was too complex to modify for the wide-char
        features. (Just add temporary debugging printouts if needed, no
        need to have them permanently in the source.)

        * glib/gspawn.c: Corresponding documentation updates.

        * glib/glib.symbols: Corresponding changes: Mark the ABI stability
        symbols as PRIVATE, add the new _utf8-suffixed ones.

2005-08-24  Stepan Kasal  <kasal@ucw.cz>

        * glib/gtypes.h (G_MININT64): Cast the constant to gint64; it is
        guint64 otherwise and that can produce warnings about comparison
        between signed and unsigned.

2005-08-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gutils.c: Fix the crt_externs.h include.

2005-08-23  Stepan Kasal  <kasal@ucw.cz>

        * NEWS: Fix spelling of my first name.

2005-08-23  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * Bump version

        * === Released 2.8.1 ===

        * NEWS: Updates

2005-08-20  Hans Breuer  <hans@breuer.org>

        * glib/makefile.msc.in : link with ws2_32.lib

2005-08-18  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

        * configure.in: Check for <sys/wait.h>

        * glib/gbacktrace.c: Include <sys/wait.h> on if HAVE_SYS_WAIT_H.

2005-08-18  Ross Burton  <ross@burtonini.com>

        * glib/gstring.c:
        Optimise single-character insertions.
        
        * glib/gutf8.c:
        Note copied code.
        
        * tests/string-test.c:
        Add tests for new optimisation, and fix a leak.

2005-08-17  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * configure.in: Check for crt_externs.h and _NSGetEnviron.

        * glib/gutils.c: On Darwin, include crt-externs.h and
        define environ using _NSGetEnviron().  (#313731)

2005-08-16  Stepan Kasal  <kasal@ucw.cz>

        * glib/gutils.c (g_get_any_init): Move the body of the big if...
        (g_get_any_init_do): ... to this new function.
        (g_get_any_init): Declare as inline.
        (g_get_any_init_locked): New inline function, does the locking.
        Make use of these two throughout the code.

2005-08-15  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        * glib/gbacktrace.c (g_on_error_stack_trace): Wait for
        the child process and then simply return. This makes 
        The "S" option work as documented in g_on_error_query().
        (#313125, Matthew F. Barnes)

        * glib/gunicode.h: Update the link to Unicode category
        values.  (#313369, Behnam Esfahbod)

        * glib/gqueue.c (g_queue_find_custom): Clarify docs
        a little.  (#311727, Tristan van Berkom)

        * glib/abicheck.sh, gobject/abicheck.sh: Make the 
        check work on ia64 too, where some symbols ended up 
        in yet another section.