[Qt-creator] Use #pragma once as default instead of header guards

[Milian Wolff]

On Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2016 10:55:22 CET Bubke Marco wrote:
> Hello
> 
> With the clang code model there is a problem to generate a preamble file
> with header guards. Imaging a preamble file is like a automatically pre
> compiled header for the include block at the top. But there are
> limitations. One is that every ifndef has to match is #endif inside of the
> preamble but this not the case for header guards.
> 
> #ifndef HEADER_GUARD
> #define HEADER_GUARD
> #include <QtGui> // this would be compiled in the preamble once
> 
> void foo()
> {
>    auto bahn = nullptr;
> }
> 
> 
> #endif
> 
> We don't generate a preamble for this case because the opening ifndefs is
> not matching the endif. In that case the clang model will be very slow!
> 
> So I propose we change our wizards to utilize #pragma once and use it for
> every new file. We can change header files where we need code completion on
> demand too.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragma_once
> 
> Best regards, Marco

Hey Marco,

can you elaborate on this please? I haven't seen such issues in KDevelop so 
far. What do you mean by "matching endif"? The header file seems to have an 
opening #ifndef and a matching #endif.

Cheers

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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