[Development] unique_ptr and Qt, Take 2
Christian Ehrlicher
Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de
Fri Jun 14 06:31:32 CEST 2019
Am 13.06.2019 um 23:44 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev:
>
> 14.06.2019, 00:14, "Christian Ehrlicher" <ch.ehrlicher at gmx.de>:
>> Am 13.06.2019 um 22:09 schrieb Ville Voutilainen:
>>>> That's one of the things I love about Qt; object hierarchies give me
>>>> working dynamic memory management without needing even smart pointers.
>>> That's the one thing that makes me queasy about using Qt in large
>>> applications; I always need
>>> to worry about ownership relationships, because I can't program with
>>> smart pointers. I had the pleasure
>>> of writing smart-pointer-only code 20 years ago; it was quite
>>> pleasant, especially considering that
>>> the largeish application was leaking like a sieve and doing
>>> use-after-free in all too many places.
>>> Once we plugged boost's smart pointers into it, all those problems
>>> went away over a weekend,
>>> and we never looked back.
>> A very good example on how to kill a library by simply using smart
>> pointer everywhere is QtXmlPatterns:
>>
>> https://bugreports.qt.io/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20QTBUG%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Reported%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22XML%3A%20QtXmlPatterns%22%20ORDER%20BY%20key%20DESC
> Any proffs that any of these issues were caused by smart pointers?
Otherwise I would not have mentioned it. Just take a look at the code
and one of the bug report issues... it awesome and you will see why
nobody want/can maintain this library.
Christian
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