[Development] Qt 6 and standard types

Volker Hilsheimer volker.hilsheimer at qt.io
Mon Nov 19 21:06:30 CET 2018


> On 17 Nov 2018, at 22:18, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 12:58:10 PST Bernhard Lindner wrote:
>> Hi everybody!
>> 
>> Are there any plans for Qt6' API to use standard types like size_t (or
>> special replacements like qsizetype) for return values and parameters that
>> have platform dependent width?
> 
> Yes. See the thread "Another integer typedef OR how to prepare for 64-bit in 
> Qt 5”



Are those discussions, once they have resulted in a conclusion/decision, turned into wiki pages or design documents or something?

Archived email threads are not a great way of capturing knowledge, which is not helped by the somewhat archaic search capabilities of the mailman UI.

Cheers,
Volker




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