[Qt-interest] Is it sensible to call "delete this; " at the end of a QThread's run method?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 29 de May de 2011 21:28:33 K. Frank wrote:
> I take it you're saying that "delete this" (within run()) is wrong and
> potentially
> dangerous, irrespective of the thread-affinity issue.  Is this right?

Yes. It's very wrong. Like you guessed yourself, the function that called 
run() does some clean up before actually exiting the thread.

And moveToThread(this) is also very wrong ("you're doing it wrong").

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