On Tuesday, 7 May 2019 05:13:33 PDT Ola Røer Thorsen wrote: > lør. 4. mai 2019 kl. 17:51 skrev Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com > > > No, the size of something definitely fits in int on 32-bit systems. And > > why do > > you need to do any static_cast in the first place? > > We build our code using gcc with the options "-Wall -Wextra -Werror" and > this leads us to have to use static_cast for example when comparing int and > unsigned int (or std::size_t). A mix of using std::array, std::string and > QVector/QByteArray often gives a few extra static casts, not that it > bothers me too much.
Well, that's your problem: mixing the APIs. The committee has recognised that it should have used signed types, but it can't change now. If there's ever an STL2 (std2 namespace), it'll use signed. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
