[Development] Important recent changes in QList/QString/QByteArray

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Hi,

Thanks for the heads up!

Il 31/08/20 13:50, Andrei Golubev ha scritto:
> The invalidation existed before for cases when a container could detach 
> (due to copy-on-write) or reallocate (due to growing or squeezing). 

This sounds incorrect? Which invalidation did happen due to COW?

> Now 
> this is also true for non-detaching, non-reallocating modifying operations.

So, now, formally, std::sort(v.begin(), v.end()) risks undefined 
behavior? E.g. begin() returns the begin iterator without touching 
anything, but end() decides to invalidate all the iterators.

Yes, I assume that in practice begin() would already invalidate, and 
end() wouldn't, so it would work, but I'm asking what's formal model 
now. Is there a way to know that the next non-const call is going to 
invalidate everything?


Side question, does anyone see a problem with begin() / data() / etc. no 
longer be noexcept O(1) operations?


Thanks,

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