On Monday 21 of July 2014 23:12:04 Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just debugged a quite weird bug with QueuedConnection and foinction
> pointer base connection.
>
> There is a compiler bug in clang 3.4 with precompiled header.
> Normally, a static variable within a template should have a different
> address for different template parameters .
> In other words:
> template<typename T> int *foo() { static int i; return &i; }
> so foo<int>() != foo<double>()
>
> However, if foo is in a precompiled header, this is not the case.
>
> And this breaks the detection of the QMetaType for the QueuedConnection
> since we rely on static variables different for each types.
> http://code.woboq.org/qt5/qtbase/src/corelib/kernel/qobject_impl.h.html#105
>
> As a result, Qt believe the metatypes are not what they are, resulting in
> wrong type conversions, and weird crash when the event is received.
>
> The bug is fixed in Clang 3.5. (not released yet)
> I don't know if it was present in earlier version of clang.
>
> Should precompiled header be disabled by default for this compiler version?
Hi,
Yes. I'm not totally sure, but I think we may have more places that depends on
the correct behavior. Nice catch!
Cheers,
Jędrek
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