On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 12:31, Lars Knoll <lars.kn...@qt.io> wrote: > What kind of argument is that? htons as a macro was worth considering, but > the ones in Qt are not? > > Fixing the htons macro also "only requires changing one place" in the System > C library. You are forgetting, that both changes break a huge amount of user > code out there. And Qt’s macros have been around for about just as long (25 > years), so they also *long* precede the existence of ISO WG21.
Well, there are multiple C libraries. So it was never just one place for that particular problem. However, we should recognize that "could have been as easily fixed on any day of the past 20+ years" applies 100% as well to those macros. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
