you can always use -1 as an error - even if signedness was an issue there is still qint64.
2015-01-29 14:36 GMT+01:00 Tomasz Siekierda <sierd...@gmail.com>: > On 29 January 2015 at 14:32, Felix morack <felixo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > Qt containers use 'int' to refer to their size thus limiting their size > to > > INT_MAX. > > > > Is there any reason for this? Why dont they use size_t like the STL and > the > > rest of the world? > > Basically this is so that -1 can be used as error (see > QList::indexOf() and similar methods). I know this argument is not > very convincing, but there you go. >
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