[Development] Changing qreal to a float

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 20 de fevereiro de 2012 09.33.27, andre.poenitz at nokia.com 
wrote:
> This needlessly removes existing functionality. We promised to try
> hard to not do that in the Qt 4-> Qt 5 transition. Removing the typedef
> is essentially a showstopper for people currently relying on double.
> 
> Leaving the 'qreal' typedef (to float...) hurts less as it can be fixed by
> recompilation,  and is not does not affect code size and performance
> compared to a global search&replace.

How about we leave it defined to double in all platforms and deprecate it?


$ gcc -xc++ -O3 -o /dev/null - <<EOF
__attribute__((deprecated)) typedef double qreal;                                                      
int main() { double x = 1.0; qreal y = x; return 0; }
EOF
<stdin>: In function ‘int main()’:
<stdin>:2:36: warning: ‘qreal’ is deprecated (declared at <stdin>:1) [-
Wdeprecated-declarations]

And then proceed to use float where we need float?

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