All frontends will have to include <libsigrok/libsigrok.h> from now on.
This header includes proto.h and version.h, both installed from the
distribution into $INCLUDE/libsigrok/ as well.
The only dynamically changed header is now version.h, which has both
libsigrok and libtool compile-time versions in it.
Use SR_API to mark public API symbols, and SR_PRIV for private symbols.
Variables and functions marked 'static' are private already and don't
need SR_PRIV. However, functions which are not static (because they need
to be used in other libsigrok-internal files) but are also not meant to
be part of the public libsigrok API, must use SR_PRIV.
This uses the 'visibility' feature of gcc (requires gcc >= 4.0).
Details: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
In the lib, we should only #include "sigrok.h" or "sigrok-internal.h",
but not the (possibly installed and thus different/older versions) via
<sigrok.h> or <sigrok-internal.h>.
Frontends should of course use <sigrok.h> and <sigrok-internal.h>.
This is useful to allow frontends to react upon close failures in a
way they see fit (e.g. a popup in the GUI, or error message in the CLI).
They can also still ignore the error if they want, of course.
The g_malloc()/g_malloc0() versions exit/segfault if not enough memory
is available, which is not a good thing in libsigrok.
Instead, we use the g_try_malloc()/g_try_malloc0() variants, which
return NULL if not enough memory is available, so that the caller can
handle the error properly.
We should use these (internal) functions in libsigrok exclusively from
now on, i.e. no more use of glib's g_debug() etc.
These functions are only for libsigrok, the frontends use whatever
logging mechanism is suitable there.
Stuff like
./bin/sigrok-cli -i rnd.dd -a transitioncounter
would segfault (rnd.dd consists of random bytes) because device->plugin
was NULL and was being dereferenced.
Thanks Olivier Fauchon <olivier@aixmarseille.com> for reporting.
Bert Vermeulen
Joel Holdsworth
Uwe Hermann
Anatoly Sokolov
Kristoffer Sjöberg