glib.h

[Kermit Tensmeyer <klt_7940 eml cc>]

Heck, I've use glib, gtk, pango, atk to build other software. And I _know_ 
that it compiles clean. At this point (after digging thru the include files)
I'm not sure I know how it could compile at all.

 Big changes between the glib-1.2 and the glib-2.0 version and specificly 
regarding glib.h. In three instances that I've found glib.h contains (and 
only contains) includes of <glib/gxxxxx.h> form
  and the gxxxx are in alpha order

 When I was building something (evolution, gtkhtml or something) the compile 
failed. It failed because G_BEGIN_DECL had not been defined when first used
by gtypes.h when included by galloca.h.

 and likewise for a few other things.  I rearranged glib.h so that 
#include <glib/gmacro.h>
#include <glib/gtypes.h>
#include <glib/galloca.h>
   were first

 and then I was stumped by another problem the typedef 'gsize' isn't defined 
in glib. (it's used extensively but not defined -and- it was defined in 
glib.h (version 1.2). The first and closest typedef of 'gsize' is in the gobj 
include directory.

  so why does any of this compile? I would have thought the test cases would 
have caught those compile type errors. 
  (heck the only thing I can think of is that other includes had already 
defined those typedefs from another set of library references. But I think 
that glib should not be dependant on any other of the gnome libraries unless 
it is so documented..)


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