glib-genmarshal
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# glib-genmarshal

C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures

    glib-genmarshal
    options
    files

## Description

`glib-genmarshal` is a small utility that generates C code marshallers for callback functions of the GClosure mechanism in the GObject sublibrary of GLib. The marshaller functions have a standard signature, they get passed in the invoking closure, an array of value structures holding the callback function parameters and a value structure for the return value of the callback. The marshaller is then responsible to call the respective C code function of the closure with all the parameters on the stack and to collect its return value.

## Invocation

`glib-genmarshal` takes a list of marshallers to generate as input. The marshaller list is either read from standard input or from files passed as additional arguments on the command line.

### Options

`--header`

  Generate header file contents of the marshallers.

`--body`

  Generate C code file contents of the marshallers.

`--prefix=string`, `--prefix string`

  Specify marshaller prefix. The default prefix is ``g_cclosure_marshal'`.

`--skip-source`

  Skip source location remarks in generated comments.

`--nostdinc`

  Do not use the standard marshallers of the GObject library, and skip `gmarshal.h` include directive in generated header files.

`--g-fatal-warnings`

  Make warnings fatal, that is, exit immediately once a warning occurs.

`-h`, `--help`

  Print brief help and exit.

`-v`, `--version`

  Print version and exit.

### Marshaller list format

The marshaller lists are processed line by line, a line can contain a comment in the form of

    # this is a comment

or a marshaller specification of the form

    RTYPE:PTYPE
    RTYPE:PTYPE,PTYPE
    RTYPE:PTYPE,PTYPE,PTYPE

(up to 16 PTYPEs may be present).

The RTYPE part specifies the callback's return type and the PTYPEs right to the colon specify the callback's parameter list, except for the first and the last arguments which are always pointers.

### Parameter types

Currently, the following types are supported:

VOID

  indicates no return type, or no extra parameters. If VOID is used as the parameter list, no additional parameters may be present.

BOOLEAN

  for boolean types (gboolean)

CHAR

  for signed char types (gchar)

UCHAR

  for unsigned char types (guchar)

INT

  for signed integer types (gint)

UINT

  for unsigned integer types (guint)

LONG

  for signed long integer types (glong)

ULONG

  for unsigned long integer types (gulong)

INT64

  for signed 64bit integer types (gint64)

UINT64

  for unsigned 64bit integer types (guint64)

ENUM

  for enumeration types (gint)

FLAGS

  for flag enumeration types (guint)

FLOAT

  for single-precision float types (gfloat)

DOUBLE

  for double-precision float types (gdouble)

STRING

  for string types (gchar*)

BOXED

  for boxed (anonymous but reference counted) types (GBoxed*)

PARAM

  for GParamSpec or derived types (GParamSpec*)

POINTER

  for anonymous pointer types (gpointer)

OBJECT

  for GObject or derived types (GObject*)

NONE

  deprecated alias for VOID

BOOL

  deprecated alias for BOOLEAN

## Example

To generate marshallers for the following callback functions:

    void   foo (gpointer data1,
                gpointer data2);
    void   bar (gpointer data1,
                gint     param1,
                gpointer data2);
    gfloat baz (gpointer data1,
                gboolean param1,
                guchar   param2,
                gpointer data2);

The marshaller list has to look like this:

    VOID:VOID
    VOID:INT
    FLOAT:BOOLEAN,UCHAR

The generated marshallers have the arguments encoded in their function name. For this particular list, they are

    g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID(),
    g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__INT(),
    g_cclosure_marshal_FLOAT__BOOLEAN_UCHAR().

They can be used directly for GClosures or be passed in as the GSignalCMarshaller c_marshaller; argument upon creation of signals:

    GClosure *cc_foo, *cc_bar, *cc_baz;

    cc_foo = g_cclosure_new (NULL, foo, NULL);
    g_closure_set_marshal (cc_foo, g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID);
    cc_bar = g_cclosure_new (NULL, bar, NULL);
    g_closure_set_marshal (cc_bar, g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__INT);
    cc_baz = g_cclosure_new (NULL, baz, NULL);
    g_closure_set_marshal (cc_baz, g_cclosure_marshal_FLOAT__BOOLEAN_UCHAR);

## See also

`glib-mkenums`(1)

## Bugs

None known yet.

## Author

`glib-genmarshal` has been written by Tim Janik timj@gtk.org.

This manual page was provided by Tim Janik timj@gtk.org.