This macro simply evaluates the "extern" unless it has been explicitly
defined to something else.

All of the version macros (including the unversioned deprecation markers
and GLIB_AVAILABLE_IN_ALL) now include _GLIB_EXTERN as part of their
definition.

G_INLINE has also been modified to use _GLIB_EXTERN where appropriate.

This macro should never be used outside of the gmacros.h/gversonmacros.h
headers.

The effect of this patch is that "extern" has now been added to all
functions declared in installed headers.  Strictly speaking, this is
something we should have had all along...

GLIB_VAR and GOBJECT_VAR have also been modified to use _GLIB_EXTERN on
non-Windows, instead of "extern" which they were using before.  The
eventual goal is to use the normal version/deprecation macros on
exported variables and drop GLIB_VAR but we need to see how this will
work on Windows before we go ahead with that.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688681