[Interest] Qt5 - Application compile error on overloaded qRound()

[Rohan McGovern]

Syam Krishnan said:
>    Hi
>    I downloaded Qt5 and compiled it successfully on Fedora 17, x86-64, gcc
>    4.7.0.
>    The I tried to build Qwt (svn version) against it and hit a compile
>    error:
>    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    ---
>    timescaleengine.cpp:235:57: error: call of overloaded ‘qRound(int)’ is
>    ambiguous
>    timescaleengine.cpp:235:57: note: candidates are:
>    In file included from timedate.h:4:0,
>                     from timescaleengine.h:4,
>                     from timescaleengine.cpp:1:
>    ../../../../Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0-beta1/qtbase/i
>    nclude/QtCore/qglobal.h:416:13: note: int qRound(double)
>    ../../../../Downloads/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.0.0-beta1/qtbase/i
>    nclude/QtCore/qglobal.h:418:13: note: int qRound(float)
>    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    ---
>    I checked qglobal.h and there are two overloads for qRound(), one
>    taking a float and another a double. Qwt code calls qRound() with an
>    int and the
>    compiler is finding it ambiguous.
>    I tried with a test program and gcc indeed refuses to resolve such
>    overloads.
>    I checked with the installed version of Qt (4.8.2) and in qglobal.h,
>    there's only one version of qRound():
>    Q_DECL_CONSTEXPR inline int qRound(qreal d)
>    { return d >= qreal(0.0) ? int(d + qreal(0.5)) : int(d - int(d-1) +
>    qreal(0.5)) + int(d-1); }
>    This version (qreal is a typedef to double) is matching with the
>    documentation (even Qt5 documentation mentions only qreal).
>    Should this be reported as a bug against Qt5? Another function
>    qRound64() also may have a problem.

It doesn't seem like a Qt bug; rounding an integer doesn't make sense,
right?  It should be checked why that code (timescaleengine.cpp:235) is
apparently attempting to round an integer.