[Interest] crashing Qt through a QObject's dtor

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 06 January 2015 12:35:01 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Tuesday January 06 2015 11:36:18 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> > And then the hackers' delight question:
> > Staring at the code at almost 3am this morning it occurred to me that
> > there is nothing wrong per se if QAction::isEnabled() returns false if
> > the d pointer is NULL (an invalid QAction cannot/shouldn't be enabled),
> > so I changed `return d->enabled` to `return d? d->enabled : false;` .
> > Haven't seen the crash occur since ...
>
> The question here is of course: how wrong is that approach?
> 
It's wrong because it's fixing the symptom (null d pointer) instead of fixing 
the cause (using an action that was already deleted).

My recommendation: run the app in valgrind.

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