Improve readability of code that uses the Qt signed size typev5.10.0-rc2

During the container BoF session at the Qt Contributor Summit 2017 the
name of the signed size type became a subject of discussion in the
context of readability of code using this type and the intention of
using it for all length, size and count properties throughout the entire
framework in future versions of Qt.

This change proposes qsizetype as new name for qssize_t to emphasize the
readability of code over POSIX compatibility, the former being
potentially more relevant than the latter to the majority of users of
Qt.

Change-Id: Idb99cb4a8782703c054fa463a9e5af23a918e7f3
Reviewed-by: Samuel Gaist <samuel.gaist@edeltech.ch>
Reviewed-by: David Faure <david.faure@kdab.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/corelib/tools/qstringalgorithms.h b/src/corelib/tools/qstringalgorithms.h
index 336da87468..aaa702301e 100644
--- a/src/corelib/tools/qstringalgorithms.h
+++ b/src/corelib/tools/qstringalgorithms.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ template <typename T> class QVector;
 
 namespace QtPrivate {
 
-Q_REQUIRED_RESULT Q_CORE_EXPORT Q_DECL_PURE_FUNCTION qssize_t qustrlen(const ushort *str) Q_DECL_NOTHROW;
+Q_REQUIRED_RESULT Q_CORE_EXPORT Q_DECL_PURE_FUNCTION qsizetype qustrlen(const ushort *str) Q_DECL_NOTHROW;
 
 Q_REQUIRED_RESULT Q_CORE_EXPORT Q_DECL_PURE_FUNCTION int compareStrings(QStringView   lhs, QStringView   rhs, Qt::CaseSensitivity cs = Qt::CaseSensitive) Q_DECL_NOTHROW;
 Q_REQUIRED_RESULT Q_CORE_EXPORT Q_DECL_PURE_FUNCTION int compareStrings(QStringView   lhs, QLatin1String rhs, Qt::CaseSensitivity cs = Qt::CaseSensitive) Q_DECL_NOTHROW;