>> I've got the gut feeling that it will be an absolutely gigantic number,
Same feeling here ++ >> 1) is it worth it? No, IMHO. For those rare cases when huge indexes / sizes are required, the std containers can be used. and BTW, I don't use QDataStream with Qt containers, must maybe there would be an issue between Qt 5 and 6 data binaries (?). Philippe On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:02:31 +0100 Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 03/12/18 00:01, Thiago Macieira ha scritto: > >> Has anyone actually tried changing size_type to a 64bit datatype, and > >> checking how many warnings start appearing in user code? (E.g. just try > >> with QString, QList, QVector; and build Creator, or some KDE libs). I've > >> got the gut feeling that it will be an absolutely gigantic number, > >> especially on Windows... > > Not yet. Yes, it will be a huge number. > > Which compels the questions: > > 1) is it worth it? > > 2) should we offer users some way (configure time switch, template parameter, > ...) to keep int-based indexes and avoid all these warnings while they fix > their code to use a ssize_t-like index? > > Cheers, > -- Giuseppe D'Angelo | [email protected] | Senior Software Engineer > KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company > Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, http://www.kdab.com > KDAB - The Qt, C++ and OpenGL Experts > _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
