[Qt-interest] Qt code compiles fine on mscv9.0 but failed with gcc

[Tim Dewhirst]

Hello,

On 25/01/2011 16:18, Bo Thorsen wrote:
> Den 25-01-2011 16:51, jjDaNiMoTh skrev:
>> 2011/1/25 Bob Hood<bhood2 at comcast.net>:
>>> On 1/25/2011 6:24 AM, Bruno Colombet wrote:
>>>> a call like this :  addCustomChannel(chan)  compiles in MSCV
>>>> but gcc complains: error: default argument parameter of type 'QString&' has
>>>> type 'QString'
>>>>
>>> Yeah, welcome to the nightmare of modern cross compiling.  :)
>
> I completely disagree with that (and it's multi compiler, not cross
> compiler). The more time you spend on multiple compilers, the cleaner
> C++ you write.

I completely agree with that; I've lost count of the number of times 
we've gone to work on someone's codebase to discover they've been using 
e.g. msvc9 exclusively with loads of warnings turned off, and then 
wonder why their code won't compile first time with a different 
compiler/platform/...

Tim