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

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34529
Reviewed-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
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Simon McVittie 2011-04-26 17:14:23 +01:00
parent 0e501b3091
commit 840314724b

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<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>