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Diffstat (limited to 'src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp b/src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp index 276741c9fb..1ebffd9f49 100644 --- a/src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp +++ b/src/corelib/global/qlibraryinfo.cpp @@ -745,6 +745,11 @@ QLibraryInfo::rawLocation(LibraryLocation loc, PathGroup group) #ifndef QT_BUILD_QMAKE_BOOTSTRAP if (!fromConf) { + // "volatile" here is a hack to prevent compilers from doing a + // compile-time strlen() on "path". The issue is that Qt installers + // will binary-patch the Qt installation paths -- in such scenarios, Qt + // will be built with a dummy path, thus the compile-time result of + // strlen is meaningless. const char * volatile path = 0; if (loc == PrefixPath) { path = getPrefix( |