Re: [Development] 0 vs. NULL

2015-10-09 Thread Marc Mutz
On Thursday 08 October 2015 11:55:52 André Somers wrote: [...] > Nowadays, for code that you won't need to compile with non C++/11 > complient compilers, I'd recommend to use nullptr instead. At least, > nullptr will always be interpretted as a pointer. [...] Seconded. I'd go so far as to use

Re: [Development] Old platform-specific functions

2015-10-09 Thread Sze Howe Koh
On 16 September 2015 at 15:46, Jake Petroules wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2015, at 9:07 PM, Sze Howe Koh wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > There's a list of platform-specific functions from Qt 4: > > http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/exportedfunctions.html > > > >

Re: [Development] 0 vs. NULL

2015-10-09 Thread Pocheptsov Timur
Well, that's a static type system. I would explain this 'asymmetry' as: some_pointer_type -> pointer_to_void conversion is safe (given that it's possible at all, since not every pointer type can be implicitly converted to void *). while hypothetical (non-existent) implicit pointer_to_void ->

Re: [Development] Qt 5.5.1 'rc' available

2015-10-09 Thread charleyb123 .
> > On Wednesday 23 September 2015 08:37:54 Heikkinen Jani wrote: > > We are targeting to release Qt 5.5.1 as soon as possible, most probably > > during next week. > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Gerhard Scheikl wrote: > Hi > > Could you please give us a new estimate? >

Re: [Development] 0 vs. NULL

2015-10-09 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday October 09 2015 13:58:37 Pocheptsov Timur wrote: > if NULL was (void *)0 - you'd have a compilation error in C++, since there is > no such implicit conversion. > > And yes, void * in C++ can be indeed considered generic, because you can do > this: > > int * p = ... > void * pv = p;

[Development] building a release Qt 4.8.7 with debug info

2015-10-09 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I've been doing release builds of Qt 4.8.7 that do contain debug information. I'm not aware of any relevant configure flags for Qt 4 like Qt 5 has, so I'm setting -g in the *C*FLAGS env. variables. That works, but on OS X I find that ObjC++ files (*.mm) are compiled without -g and thus

Re: [Development] Qt 5.5.1 'rc' available

2015-10-09 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday 09 October 2015 10:40:44 charleyb123 . wrote: > A couple weeks have gone by, and I've not seen "Meeting Minutes" from > recent release-team-meetings. > > Do we have a feel for timing? (I'm in a similar scenario as Gerhard.) There was no meeting this week because of the Qt World

Re: [Development] 0 vs. NULL

2015-10-09 Thread Matthew Woehlke
On 2015-10-09 11:51, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Friday October 09 2015 13:58:37 Pocheptsov Timur wrote: >> And yes, void * in C++ can be indeed considered generic, because >> you can do this: >> >> int * p = ... void * pv = p; > > Coming from C I have some trouble with that concept of generic