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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-40363

Use of QVariant conversions cause asymmetric and intransitive operator==()

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      The use of QVariant conversions results in asymmetric and intransitive equality comparison, making it unsuitable for use in containers that require EqualityComparable. It also leads to unexpected behaviour in QMap (content depends on insertion order):

      int main()
      {
          QVariant v1(97);
          QVariant v2(QUrl("a"));
          QVariant v3(QChar('a'));
       
          QMap<QVariant, int> s1;
          s1.insert(v1, 1);
          s1.insert(v2, 1);
          s1.insert(v3, 1);
       
          QMap<QVariant, int> s2;
          s2.insert(v3, 1);
          s2.insert(v2, 1);
          s2.insert(v1, 1);
       
          assert(s1.size() == 2);
          assert(s2.size() == 1);
       
          return 0;
      }
      

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