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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday, 3 September 2020 04:14:06 PDT Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development 
wrote:
> Interestingly enough, QDataStream is defined in terms of qintXX types
> (and it's missing long), QTextStream in terms of native datatypes (and
> has them all).

Intentionally! Because long changes size across platforms. So you must choose 
whether to encode your value as 32-bit or as 64-bit, explicitly.

Note that this now applies to qsizetype and we don't have the same protection. 
You must choose the size and the compiler won't tell you if you forgot.

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