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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE, Qt3 and Amarok
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-04-20 12:10:48
Message-ID: 200804200910.56639.thiago () kde ! org
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Bart Van Assche wrote:
>I'm neither a Qt nor a KDE expert. Can you please have a look at the
>program below and tell me whether or not the programming style is
>acceptable ? The program below triggers several data races with Qt3,
>but does not trigger any data races with Qt4.

The program is wrong.

Qt 3 *requires* you to make a deep copy of the QString using QDeepCopy 
(see http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/qdeepcopy.html) before passing it to 
another thread.

That's what Amarok is failing to do.

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