some doubts in glib code

[ramasubramanian.rahul]

hi people..
dont know if this the right forum for this doubt ... so sorry if i am
mis-posting...
i was looking at the way glib 2.10.3 does export optimization using a
list of "to be exposed" function names in a file caleed glib.symbols.
this file is used by a perl script to generate a header a .c file
( galias.h and galiasdefs.c). This files essentially enusres default
visibility for these functions (using the __attribute__((default))__
option) , while building the rest of the functions with -
fvisibility=hidden.
i have two doubt regarding this.
1in the generated header galias.h there is a syntax
#define IN_FILE(x) 1
#define IN_HEADER defined

#if IN_HEADER(__G_ARRAY_H__)
#if IN_FILE(__G_ARRAY_C__)
extern __typeof (g_array_append_vals) IA__g_array_append_vals
__attribute((visibility("hidden")));
#define g_array_append_vals IA__g_array_append_vals
....
......
#endif
#endif

whnat does #define IN_HEADER defined mean.. and how is it used
in this context.

2secondly , how does glib maintain the glib.symbols list .. is it
manual or does it use some kind of a parser to parse through the
include folder of glib to come up with the list...
hope i have been able to clearly state my doubts....
thanks in advance for the replies and help...
BR
Rahul

[Barry Schwarz]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:26:20 -0700 (PDT),
"ra*******************@gmail.com" <ra*******************@gmail.com>
wrote:

>hi people..
dont know if this the right forum for this doubt ... so sorry if i am
mis-posting...
i was looking at the way glib 2.10.3 does export optimization using a
list of "to be exposed" function names in a file caleed glib.symbols.
this file is used by a perl script to generate a header a .c file
( galias.h and galiasdefs.c). This files essentially enusres default
visibility for these functions (using the __attribute__((default))__
option) , while building the rest of the functions with -
fvisibility=hidden.
i have two doubt regarding this.
1in the generated header galias.h there is a syntax
#define IN_FILE(x) 1
#define IN_HEADER defined

#if IN_HEADER(__G_ARRAY_H__)
#if IN_FILE(__G_ARRAY_C__)
extern __typeof (g_array_append_vals) IA__g_array_append_vals
__attribute((visibility("hidden")));
#define g_array_append_vals IA__g_array_append_vals
...
.....
#endif
#endif

whnat does #define IN_HEADER defined mean.. and how is it used
in this context.

It tells the compiler that whenever it sees the token
IN_HEADER
it should substitute the token
defined

Consequently, the directive
#if IN_HEADER(__G_ARRAY_H__)
is processed as if it were
#if defined(__G_ARRAY_H__)

It takes some reasonably obvious syntax and obfuscates it by adding an
alias. In my opinion, this is one of those bad ideas along the lines
of
#define BEGIN {

>
2secondly , how does glib maintain the glib.symbols list .. is it
manual or does it use some kind of a parser to parse through the
include folder of glib to come up with the list...
hope i have been able to clearly state my doubts....

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