At the moment we have two main strategies for dealing with move
assignment in Qt:
1) move-and-swap, used by "containers" (in the broad sense): containers,
but also smart pointers and similar classes that can hold user-defined
types;
2) pure swap, used by containers that hold only memory (e.g. QString,
QByteArray, ...) as well as most implicitly shared datatypes.
Given the fact that a move assignment operator's code is just
boilerplate (whether it's move-and-swap or pure swap), provide two
_strictly internal_ macros to help write them, and apply the macros
across corelib and gui, porting away from the hand-rolled
implementations.
The rule of thumb when porting to the new macros is:
* Try to stick to the existing code behavior, unless broken
* if changing, then follow this checklist:
* if the class does not have a move constructor => pure swap
(but consider ADDING a move constructor, if possible!)
* if the class does have a move constructor, try to follow the
criteria above, namely:
* if the class holds only memory, pure swap;
* if the class may hold anything else but memory (file handles,
etc.), then move and swap.
Noteworthy details:
* some operators planned to be removed in Qt 6 were not ported;
* as drive-by, some move constructors were simplified to be using
qExchange(); others were outright broken and got fixed;
* some contained some more interesting code and were not touched.
Change-Id: Idaab3489247dcbabb6df3fa1e5286b69e1d372e9
Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@qt.io>
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