[Development] QUIP 6: removing top-level const from return types

[Marc Mutz]

On Tuesday 23 May 2017 08:36:00 Lars Knoll wrote:
>  (a detach happening on Linux, but not on MSVC)

Don't fall for FUD.

QPixmap does not have functions that are overloaded on const/non-const. 
Neither does QRegion. Well, except for the special member functions, which is 
the whole point of the exercise. And for QStringBuilder, the change enabled 
calling the rvalue overload of toXyz() functions in the first place, which re-
use storage, saving an allocation.

To summarize: there is no negative impact of any of these changes. And if MSVC 
does something stupid, it deserves to continue to be pessimised.

Thanks,
Marc

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