[Qt-interest] Returning arbitrary value with?QApplication::exit ()

[Pascal Patry]

On Friday 26 June 2009 15:43:23 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 26.06.09 15:22:45, Pascal Patry wrote:
> > On Friday 26 June 2009 15:09:59 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > I don't think its safe to re-create QApplication, AFAIK this can lead
> > > to subtle hard-to-track bugs later on.
> > >
> > > Andreas
> >
> > I don't want to say that this kind of design is wrong, neither that you
> > are, but I think that developing a software thinking that a particular
> > class cannot be instantiated again once destroyed is a mistake.
>
> Well, we're not talking about just any class. QApplication is certainly
> special in this sense. It does a lot of setup stuff to actually make the
> whole Qt "magic" work. Some of these things might not easily be
> reversible and hence re-doing them might cause unknown or undefined
> behaviour.
>
> Andreas

Whether it is caused by Qt or not, bugs should be opened in respective 
trackers if this is the case.