[Development] Another integer typedef OR how to prepare for 64-bit in Qt 5

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 03/12/18 00:01, Thiago Macieira ha scritto:
>> Has anyone actually tried changing size_type to a 64bit datatype, and
>> checking how many warnings start appearing in user code? (E.g. just try
>> with QString, QList, QVector; and build Creator, or some KDE libs). I've
>> got the gut feeling that it will be an absolutely gigantic number,
>> especially on Windows...
> Not yet. Yes, it will be a huge number.

Which compels the questions:

1) is it worth it?

2) should we offer users some way (configure time switch, template 
parameter, ...) to keep int-based indexes and avoid all these warnings 
while they fix their code to use a ssize_t-like index?

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo | giuseppe.dangelo at kdab.com | Senior Software Engineer
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