# Annotation Glossary

### A

allow-none

  NULL is OK, both for passing and for returning.

### E

element-type

  Generics and defining elements of containers and arrays.

### P

Private

  An interface that can be used within the GNOME stack itself, but that is not documented for end-users. Such functions should only be used in specified and documented ways.

### S

skip

  Exposed in C code, not necessarily available in other languages.

### T

transfer none

  Don't free data after the code is done.

type

  Override the parsed C type with given type.