qHash function for QRect

What is the best way to calculate the qHash value of a QRect? I need to use QRect (and maybe QRectF) as the key of QCache. Right now I am using something like this:

inline uint qHash(const QRect & r)
{
 return qHash(QByteArray::fromRawData((const char*)&r, sizeof(r)));
}

It seems to work but I don't like casting it into some raw bytes and since QRect is noy a simple struct, this may break sooner than later in future versions of开发者_如何学Python Qt.

BTW. I don't store the hash values so it doesn't have to be persistent or cross-platform. But it does need to be reliable and fast.

Thanks.

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I would simply do return qHash(QString("%1,%2,%3,%4").arg(r.x()).arg(r.y()).arg(r.width()).arg(r.height())))

Also I've found this solution: http://thesmithfam.org/blog/2008/01/17/using-qrect-with-qhash/ (read comment)

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Well, how about:

inline uint qHash(const QRect & r)
{
    return qHash(r.left()) + qHash(r.top()) + qHash(r.width()) + qHash(r.bottom());
}  

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What about simply XORing each integer? As far as I know, qHash(QPair<..>) does this (with the already calculated qHashes for both items).

inline uint qHash(const QRect & r)
{
    return qHash(r.left() ^ r.top() ^ r.right() ^ r.bottom());
    // or
    return qHash(r.left()) ^ qHash(r.top()) ^
           qHash(r.right()) ^ qHash(r.bottom());
}

The same for QRectF:

inline uint qHash(const QRectF & r)
{
    return qHash(r.left()) ^ qHash(r.top()) ^
           qHash(r.right()) ^ qHash(r.bottom());
}

(Note that even rounding down to integers does NOT mean that your cache will work improperly - just the hash table "cheats" a bit.)

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I think this is most optimal solution for >=Qt5.4:

uint qHash(const QRect& r)
{
    int data[4];
    data[0] = r.left();
    data[1] = r.top();
    data[2] = r.width();
    data[3] = r.height();
    return qHashBits(data, 4 * sizeof(int));
}

For versions of Qt below 5.4 we have to write less optimal in such manner:

uint qHash(const QRect& r)
{
    QByteArray data(sizeof(int) * 4, 0);
    int* d = reinterpret_cast<int*>(data.data());
    d[0] = r.left();
    d[1] = r.top();
    d[2] = r.width();
    d[3] = r.height();
    return qHash(data);
}