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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 1 September 2020 08:53:36 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development 
wrote:
> 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.

We've seen this in QCborMap and QJsonObject too: trying to optimise code for 
not detaching causes problems.

All non-const functions that may detach should be coded so they DO detach. 
That is, after any and all non-const functions, the refcount of the container 
should be 1.

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