DRAFT document on coding conventions in kde libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Sandro Giessl wrote:
>On Sunday 05 March 2006 14:45, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> - all reference count variables should use QAtomic: do not implement
>> your own refcounting mechanism using "int".
>
>BTW. I can't find anything about QAtomic in Qt 4.1 docs (though, I
> believe I have read about it in a Qt Quarterly or so). Any hints where
> to find it?

Hmm... indeed, the class is not documented. I'll take a look why that is 
so.

Basically, what you want is:

- in your Private class:
  QAtomic ref;

- in your constructor:
  d->ref.ref();

- in your destructor:
  if (!d->ref.deref())
    delete d;

- in your assignment operator:
  qAtomicAssign(d, other.d);

(qAtomicAssign is documented)

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