[Development] Deprecation of QByteArray operator const char *()?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 25 January 2019 12:11:33 PST Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The two implicit conversions from QByteArray to const char*/void*
> (QByteArray::operator const char *() and QByteArray::operator const
> void*()) were marked as obsolete with Qt5.0 but never get decorated as
> such. This means their usage even inside QtBase is huge (I would say at
> least 70-80 locations).
> Therefore my question before I'm pushing a patch to add QT_DEPRECATED_X
> to them - is the deprecation still valid?

I'd un-deprecate them. The use to casting to char* is way too useful.

But I wasn't aware we event had a void* cast.

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