[Development] Is qsizetype *documented* to be ptrdiff_t?

[Lars Knoll]

> On 31 Aug 2020, at 13:55, Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
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> Quick question (before Hyrum's law kicks in): qsizetype is currently defined as ptrdiff_t, but is it documented to be so?

It is defined as qint64, which is not always ptrdiff_t. I proposed to Thiago to change that, but he has some concerns. As far as I understood, the main issue is that ptrdiff_t is long on some platforms and long long on others.

One issue with that is that we traditionally didn’t provide overloads for long for methods like QString::number() etc.  
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> For instance, is one supposed to print it in printf using %td?

Right not, you need to cast to ptrdiff_t and then use %td.

Cheers,
Lars