Review Request 118016: Fix wrong constructor resolution

[Marco Martin]

> On May 6, 2014, 1:30 p.m., Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > AFAICT it is BIC but no SIC, no brainer.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     it's a SIC change as one could have used the variant specifying just NET::Properties and screen. This would now have to be changed to use NET::Properties2 before screen argument.
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> Thomas Lübking wrote:
>     It's SIC.
>     "NETRootInfo(connection, properties, 1);" would now cause an error, but since it's been buggy anyway (enums are indeed not polymorphic, but for int,... though gcc could have known better) that should hardly matter.
>     
>     @Marco
>     got that with gcc or clang? And which version and what specific call?
>     The constructor is (theoretically) correctly resolvable and if it's an ambiguous call, i'd expect a compiler error as well...
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> Kevin Ottens wrote:
>     Ah I see. Hm, is it very much used outside of the workspace?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     > is it very much used outside of the workspace?
>     
>     probably not and ftr the ctors are SIC anyway compared to 4.x as it's now based on xcb
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> Kevin Ottens wrote:
>     I stand by my "ship it!" then.

@Thomas: gcc 4.7.2 on opensuse
the error happens for instance in the virtual desktop KCM
NETRootInfo info(QX11Info::connection(), NET::NumberOfDesktops | NET::DesktopNames, NET::WM2DesktopLayout);

NET::WM2DesktopLayout gets passed as screen


- Marco


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On May 6, 2014, 12:47 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated May 6, 2014, 12:47 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and kwin.
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> Repository: kwindowsystem
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> Description
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> when the constructor
> NETRootInfo(xcb_connection_t *connection, NET::Properties properties, NET::Properties2 properties2,
>                 int screen = -1, bool doActivate = true);
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> gets called, NET::Properties2 gets casted as int and the other constructor
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> NETRootInfo(xcb_connection_t *connection, NET::Properties properties, int screen = -1, bool doActivate = true)
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> is called instead.
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> This patch merges the two constructors, fixing all the users of the first one
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> Diffs
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>   autotests/netrootinfotestwm.cpp da7dcea 
>   src/netwm.h 7cbf2ab 
>   src/netwm.cpp a0e9105 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118016/diff/
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> Testing
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> screen and doActivate parameter weren't used by any, so all the currently ported software still builds and works correctly
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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