On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:22:58AM +0000, Lars Knoll wrote: > We didn’t want it in earlier versions of Qt for mainly two reasons. Early > implementations had quite an overhead on library size, and dynamic_cast didn’t > work reliable between DLL boundaries on Windows. Both problems have gone away > many years ago.
I would appreciate if someone on Windows could run a reality check on that with a dynamic_cast between classes that don't have a key function, i.e. where everything is inlined and/or templates. > [...] > We are making use of dynamic_cast and typeid in Qt nowadays, so I guess it’s > high time we adjust the wiki. The fact that it works in some, even common, situations doesn't imply it works safely everywhere. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
