GLib Fundamentals

Table of Contents
Basic Types — standard GLib types, defined for ease-of-use and portability.
Limits of Basic Types — portable method of determining the limits of the standard types.
Standard Macros — commonly-used macros.
Type Conversion Macros — a portable method for storing gint & guint values in gpointer variables.
Byte Order Macros — a portable way to convert between different byte orders.
Miscellaneous Macros — specialised macros which are not used often.