[Qt-creator] Minimizing compile-time conditionals in Qt Creator

[André Pönitz]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:50:03PM +0200, Christian Kandeler wrote:
> On 28/08/12 14:19, ext Stephen Chu wrote:
> > On 8/28/12 3:56 AM, Christian Kandeler wrote:
> >>       QStringList rc(QLatin1String(".svn"));
> >>       if (Utils::HostOsInfo::isWindowsHost())
> >>           rc.push_back(QLatin1String("_svn"));
> >>       return rc;
> >
> > Doesn't this generate dead code that will never be executed on platforms
> > other than the intended one?
> 
> Yes (with C++03 at least).

If the isWindowsHost() implementation is in the header there's
a decent chance the optimizer catches it.

Andre'

PS:

> And if you can provide an example where it demonstrably matters, we
> can switch back to ifdefs for that particular piece of code.

/me mumbles something about "strings"