WTH is GQuark?

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

What is this GQuark stuff in glib?  Parse errors in glib.h related to it
have prevented me from compiling gnome-libs for more than a week.

/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1698: parse error before `*'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1729: parse error before `g_quark_try_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1729: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `g_quark_try_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1729: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1730: parse error before
`g_quark_from_static_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1730: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `g_quark_from_static_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1730: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1731: parse error before `g_quark_from_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1731: warning: type defaults to `int' in
declaration of `g_quark_from_string'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1731: warning: data definition has no type or
storage class
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1732: parse error before `quark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1740: parse error before `GQuark'
/opt/gnome/include/glib.h:1742: parse error before `GQuark'
[etc]

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