Attachment 46092 Details for Bug 34529 – Reserve 'm', '*', '?', '@', '&' and '^' for their uses in GVariant

[patch] Reserve 'm', '*', '?', '@', '&' and '^' for their uses in GVariant

0001-Reserve-m-and-for-their-uses-in-GVariant.patch (text/plain), 2.36 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2011-04-26 09:20:48 UTC

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Created: 2011-04-26 09:20:48 UTC

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>From 62354da4158745c75f938f885c6eef42c6a75b48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:14:23 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] Reserve 'm', '*', '?', '@', '&' and '^' for their uses in
> GVariant
>
>Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34529
>---
> doc/dbus-specification.xml |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>index 836b64b..e7448c6 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>@@ -485,6 +485,38 @@
>                 <entry>104 (ASCII 'h')</entry>
>                 <entry>Unix file descriptor</entry>
>               </row>
>+              <row>
>+                <entry>(reserved)</entry>
>+                <entry>109 (ASCII 'm')</entry>
>+                <entry>Reserved for <ulink
>+                    url="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27857">a
>+                  'maybe' type compatible with the one in GVariant</ulink>,
>+                  and must not appear in signatures used on D-Bus until
>+                  specified here</entry>
>+              </row>
>+              <row>
>+                <entry>(reserved)</entry>
>+                <entry>42 (ASCII '*')</entry>
>+                <entry>Reserved for use in bindings/implementations to
>+                  represent any <firstterm>single complete type</firstterm>,
>+                  and must not appear in signatures used on D-Bus.</entry>
>+              </row>
>+              <row>
>+                <entry>(reserved)</entry>
>+                <entry>63 (ASCII '?')</entry>
>+                <entry>Reserved for use in bindings/implementations to
>+                  represent any <firstterm>basic type</firstterm>, and must
>+                  not appear in signatures used on D-Bus.</entry>
>+              </row>
>+              <row>
>+                <entry>(reserved)</entry>
>+                <entry>64 (ASCII '@'), 38 (ASCII '&amp;'),
>+                  94 (ASCII '^')</entry>
>+                <entry>Reserved for internal use by bindings/implementations,
>+                  and must not appear in signatures used on D-Bus.
>+                  GVariant uses these type-codes to encode calling
>+                  conventions.</entry>
>+              </row>
>             </tbody>
>           </tgroup>
>         </informaltable>
>-- 
>1.7.4.4
>

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