This gets rid of the smell that one destroyIfLastRef() call guarded
against nullptr while the other one did not.
Don't change the function signatures, as passing by unique_ptr, while
making the transfer of ownership clear, makes it impossible to call
the function as a tail-call: Non-trivially-copyable arguments live in
the caller's stack frame and the caller has no idea whether the object
was moved from in the callee or not, so it needs to run the dtor,
which prevents this from being tail-callable.
Passing .release(), OTOH, makes it obvious that the unique_ptr is
nullptr afterwards, so leaves the door open for tail-calling.
However, the QObjectPrivate::connectImpl() wasn't, and continues to
not be, a tail-call. Investigating why, while intriguing, is for
another patch (and much more important for the template wrappers of
these functions than then one out-of-line function we're dealing with
here).
Pick-to: 6.6 6.5
Change-Id: Ib951ed2a2b622d70cb12ddbf01c83ec56b1ce70d
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
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