[Interest] moveToThread used in constructor to move "this"

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 24 de fevereiro de 2016 10:22:18 PST Lorenz Haas wrote:
>    Foo() : QObject(nullptr) {
>       moveToThread(&m_thread);
>       m_thread.start();
>    }
> 
>    ~Foo() {
>       m_thread.quit();
>       m_thread.wait();
>    }

This destructor is either never run or deadlocks.

A QObject can only be destroyed in its thread of affinity. So the above is 
running in that m_thread thread, which means it hasn't exited. Waiting for it 
to exit will wait forever.

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