[Development] Weird offseting in QDataStream

[André Somers]

Christian Ehrlicher schreef op 8-11-2013 10:29:
> Am 08.11.2013 10:15, schrieb Yves Bailly:
>> Le 08/11/2013 10:05, Giuseppe D'Angelo a écrit :
>>> On 8 November 2013 10:01, Yves Bailly <yves.bailly at sescoi.fr> wrote:
>>>> As a float is 4 bytes, I would expect the second f.pos() to display "4"... but
>>>> it displays "8", as if QDataStream had moved 8 bytes ahead instead of just 4.
>>>> Needless to say, the read float is wrong...
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something here, or is it a bug?
>>> See QDataStream::setFloatingPointPrecision. The default is double.
>> That's pretty strange... what if I want to read a float then a double? do I
>> have to switch between the two each time?
>> Does this means it's impossible to use code like this:
>> float f;
>> double d;
>> datastream >> f >> d;
>> ?
> setFloatingPointPrecision does only change the way the floating point
> numbers are stored in the data stream, not what you read from it.
> Also I think you're wrong in what you want to do. You can't read data
> from a file which was not stored with QDataStream before! See
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtcore/qdatastream.html#details
That sounds very unlikely. It would mean that you cannot use symetric 
code for reading and writing data:

//writing
float f(3.14159);
double d(2.71828);
datastream << f << d;

//reading, would not work according to Christian
float f;
double d;
datastream >> f >> d; //would not work according to you

//reading, according to Christian
float f;
double df, d;
datastream >> df >> d;
f = static_cast<float>(d);

I'm quite sure that you _can_ use the symetric (first) version.

André


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