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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="glib.html">GLib Overview</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-building.html">Compiling the GLib package</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
-How to compile GLib itself
-</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-building.html">Compiling the GLib package</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — How to compile GLib itself</span>
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-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-regex-syntax.html">Regular expression syntax</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
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-</span>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="glib-fundamentals.html">GLib Fundamentals</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Version-Information.html">Version Information</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Variables and functions to check the GLib version</span>
-</dt>
-<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Basic-Types.html">Basic Types</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Version-Information.html">Version Information</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — variables and functions to check the GLib version</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Limits-of-Basic-Types.html">Limits of Basic Types</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — portable method of determining the limits of the standard types</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Basic-Types.html">Basic Types</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use
+ and portability</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Standard-Macros.html">Standard Macros</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — commonly-used macros.</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Standard-Macros.html">Standard Macros</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — commonly-used macros</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Type-Conversion-Macros.html">Type Conversion Macros</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — portably storing integers in pointer variables</span>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-The-Main-Event-Loop.html">The Main Event Loop</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — manages all available sources of events</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Threads.html">Threads</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — thread abstraction; including threads, different
- mutexes, conditions and thread private data</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Threads.html">Threads</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — portable support for threads, mutexes, locks,
+ conditions and thread private data</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Thread-Pools.html">Thread Pools</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — pools of threads to execute work concurrently</span>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Memory-Allocation.html">Memory Allocation</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — general memory-handling</span>
</dt>
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+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Memory-Slices.html">Memory Slices</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized
+ chunks of memory</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-IO-Channels.html">IO Channels</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — portable support for using files, pipes and
sockets</span>
</dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Warnings-and-Assertions.html">Message Output and Debugging Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — functions to output messages and help debug applications</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Message-Logging.html">Message Logging</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — versatile support for logging messages with different levels of importance</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Message-Logging.html">Message Logging</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — versatile support for logging messages
+ with different levels of importance</span>
</dt>
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<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="glib-utilities.html">GLib Utilities</a></span></dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-String-Utility-Functions.html">String Utility Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — various string-related functions</span>
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-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html">Character Set Conversion</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — convert strings between different character sets using <code class="function">iconv()</code></span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html">Character Set Conversion</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — convert strings between different character sets</span>
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-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html">Unicode Manipulation</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — functions operating on Unicode characters and UTF-8 strings</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Unicode-Manipulation.html">Unicode Manipulation</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — functions operating on Unicode characters and
+ UTF-8 strings</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Base64-Encoding.html">Base64 Encoding</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — encodes and decodes data in Base64 format</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Data-Checksums.html">Data Checksums</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Computes the checksum for data</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Data-Checksums.html">Data Checksums</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — computes the checksum for data</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Data-HMACs.html">Secure HMAC Digests</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — computes the HMAC for data</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-I18N.html">Internationalization</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — gettext support macros</span>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Date-and-Time-Functions.html">Date and Time Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — calendrical calculations and miscellaneous time stuff</span>
</dt>
<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GTimeZone.html">GTimeZone</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — a structure representing a time zone</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GDateTime.html">GDateTime</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — a structure representing Date and Time</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Random-Numbers.html">Random Numbers</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — pseudo-random number generator</span>
</dt>
<dt>
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-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Automatic-String-Completion.html">Automatic String Completion</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — support for automatic completion using a group
- of target strings</span>
-</dt>
-<dt>
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<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-File-Utilities.html">File Utilities</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — various file-related functions</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-URI-Functions.html">URI Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — URI Functions</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-URI-Functions.html">URI Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — manipulating URIs</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Hostname-Utilities.html">Hostname Utilities</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — Internet hostname utilities</span>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Perl-compatible-regular-expressions.html">Perl-compatible regular expressions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — matches strings against regular expressions</span>
</dt>
<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-regex-syntax.html">Regular expression syntax</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> —
+syntax and semantics of regular expressions supported by GRegex
+</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Simple-XML-Subset-Parser.html">Simple XML Subset Parser</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — parses a subset of XML</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Key-value-file-parser.html">Key-value file parser</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — parses <code class="filename">.ini</code>-like config files</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Key-value-file-parser.html">Key-value file parser</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — parses .ini-like config files</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Bookmark-file-parser.html">Bookmark file parser</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — parses files containing bookmarks</span>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Testing.html">Testing</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — a test framework</span>
</dt>
<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-UNIX-specific-utilities-and-integration.html">UNIX-specific utilities and integration</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — pipes, signal handling</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Windows-Compatibility-Functions.html">Windows Compatibility Functions</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — UNIX emulation on Windows</span>
</dt>
</dl></dd>
<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="glib-data-types.html">GLib Data Types</a></span></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Memory-Slices.html">Memory Slices</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — efficient way to allocate groups of equal-sized chunks of memory</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Doubly-Linked-Lists.html">Doubly-Linked Lists</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — linked lists that can be iterated over in both directions</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Memory-Chunks.html">Memory Chunks</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — deprecated way to allocate groups of equal-sized
- chunks of memory</span>
-</dt>
-<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Doubly-Linked-Lists.html">Doubly-Linked Lists</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — linked lists containing integer values or
- pointers to data, with the ability to iterate
- over the list in both directions</span>
-</dt>
-<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html">Singly-Linked Lists</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — linked lists containing integer values or
- pointers to data, limited to iterating over the
- list in one direction</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html">Singly-Linked Lists</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — linked lists that can be iterated in one direction</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Double-ended-Queues.html">Double-ended Queues</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — double-ended queue data structure</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Hash-Tables.html">Hash Tables</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — associations between keys and values so that
- given a key the value can be found quickly</span>
+ given a key the value can be found quickly</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Strings.html">Strings</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — text buffers which grow automatically as text is added</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Strings.html">Strings</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — text buffers which grow automatically
+ as text is added</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-String-Chunks.html">String Chunks</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — efficient storage of groups of strings</span>
grow automatically as new elements are added</span>
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<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Byte-Arrays.html">Byte Arrays</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — arrays of bytes, which grow automatically as
- elements are added</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Byte-Arrays.html">Byte Arrays</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — arrays of bytes</span>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Balanced-Binary-Trees.html">Balanced Binary Trees</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — a sorted collection of key/value pairs optimized
particular memory locations</span>
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<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Relations-and-Tuples.html">Relations and Tuples</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — tables of data which can be indexed on any
- number of fields</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GVariantType.html">GVariantType</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — introduction to the GVariant type system</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Caches.html">Caches</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — caches allow sharing of complex data structures
- to save resources</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GVariant.html">GVariant</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — strongly typed value datatype</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html">Memory Allocators</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — deprecated way to allocate chunks of memory for
- GList, GSList and GNode</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gvariant-format-strings.html">GVariant Format Strings</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — varargs conversion of GVariants</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GVariantType.html">GVariantType</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — introduction to the GVariant type system</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gvariant-text.html">GVariant Text Format</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — textual representation of GVariants</span>
+</dt>
+</dl></dd>
+<dt><span class="chapter"><a href="deprecated.html">Deprecated APIs</a></span></dt>
+<dd><dl>
+<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Deprecated-Thread-APIs.html">Deprecated thread API</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — old thread APIs (for reference only)</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-GVariant.html">GVariant</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — strongly typed value datatype</span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Caches.html">Caches</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — caches allow sharing of complex data structures
+ to save resources</span>
</dt>
<dt>
-<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="gvariant-format-strings.html">GVariant Format Strings</a></span><span class="refpurpose"></span>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Relations-and-Tuples.html">Relations and Tuples</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — tables of data which can be indexed on any
+ number of fields</span>
+</dt>
+<dt>
+<span class="refentrytitle"><a href="glib-Automatic-String-Completion.html">Automatic String Completion</a></span><span class="refpurpose"> — support for automatic completion using a group
+ of target strings</span>
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+<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-2-26.html">Index of new symbols in 2.26</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-2-28.html">Index of new symbols in 2.28</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-2-30.html">Index of new symbols in 2.30</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="index"><a href="api-index-2-32.html">Index of new symbols in 2.32</a></span></dt>
+<dt><span class="glossary"><a href="annotation-glossary.html">Annotation Glossary</a></span></dt>
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