Michal Burda wrote:
> Hello everybody!
>
> I'm new on this forum and I have one question?
> Can anybody help me?
> I would like to know, what is GLib for? Why its programmers
> created so many functions which are available in standard GNU C
> Library? Isn't it better to use standard C functions instead of
> these GLib ones (because of portability)?
>
> Can anybody explain me the meaning of GLib existence?
>
Not everybody is using glibc. It is not practical, appropriate
or possible to use glibc on many platforms: i.e. not everyone
is running Linux on an x86 machine, not everyone can persuade
their sys admins to make an alternative C library readily
available, etc. Anyway, GLib tends to wrap the C library calls
up in sanity checks and stuff, reducing the coding tasks for us,
the GTK programmers.
And another thing, glibc (or any othe C library) doesn't include
the rich string/array/datalist functions that GLib provides.
-Andy
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