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  2. QTCREATORBUG-18118

Failed to build 4.3 on GCC 4.9.3 due to -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
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    • Qt Creator 4.3.0-rc1
    • Qt Creator 4.3.0-rc1
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    • qtbase 534c1ce76d499c680b1b5163346064e8b2bc4617 (yes, pretty old)
      qt-creator f0d14da7b9a4ec7ffd2c5fa484311992ee4e97e3 (tip of the 4.3 branch)
      GCC "gcc (Gentoo Hardened 4.9.3 p1.5, pie-0.6.4) 4.9.3"
    • 10c285db86e78a773eb5aa98932500839e820179

    Description

      Commit 11c87bd9182368e6597554a9719b329a6f480635 breaks the build for GCC 4.9.3:

      qt-creator/src/plugins/cmakeprojectmanager[4.3] $ g++ -c -pipe -O2 -std=gnu++1y -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Wall -W -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DCMAKEPROJECTMANAGER_LIBRARY -D'RELATIVE_PLUGIN_PATH="../lib/qtcreator/plugins"' -D'RELATIVE_LIBEXEC_PATH="../libexec/qtcreator"' -D'RELATIVE_DATA_PATH="../share/qtcreator"' -D'RELATIVE_DOC_PATH="../share/doc/qtcreator"' -DIDE_LIBRARY_BASENAME=\"lib\" -DQT_CREATOR -DQT_NO_CAST_TO_ASCII -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII -DQT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x050600 -DQT_USE_FAST_OPERATOR_PLUS -DQT_USE_FAST_CONCATENATION -DQMAKE_AS_LIBRARY -DPROPARSER_THREAD_SAFE -DPROEVALUATOR_THREAD_SAFE -DPROEVALUATOR_CUMULATIVE -DPROEVALUATOR_DUAL_VFS -DPROEVALUATOR_SETENV -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CONCURRENT_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I../../../src -I../../../src -I../../libs -I/home/jkt/work/prog/qt-creator/tools -I../../plugins -I../../shared -I../../libs/3rdparty -I. -isystem /usr/include/qt5 -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtGui -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtConcurrent -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtNetwork -isystem /usr/include/qt5/QtCore -I.moc/release-shared -I/usr/lib64/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o /dev/null cmakebuildstep.cpp
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::cleanTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:394:12: error: could not convert ‘(const char*)"clean"’ from ‘const char*’ to ‘QString’
           return "clean";
                  ^
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::allTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:399:12: error: could not convert ‘(const char*)"all"’ from ‘const char*’ to ‘QString’
           return "all";
                  ^
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::installTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:404:12: error: could not convert ‘(const char*)"install"’ from ‘const char*’ to ‘QString’
           return "install";
                  ^
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::cleanTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:395:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
       }
       ^
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::allTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:400:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
       }
       ^
      cmakebuildstep.cpp: In static member function ‘static QString CMakeProjectManager::Internal::CMakeBuildStep::installTarget()’:
      cmakebuildstep.cpp:405:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
       }
       ^
      

      It builds fine with clang 3.9. Removing the -DQT_RESTRICTED_CAST_FROM_ASCII lets the build continue as well. Unless my older qtbase breaks something, this is probably a bug in my compiler, so I'll let you evaluate whether this is something that you want to address or not.

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