Using emit vs calling a signal as if it’s a regular function in Qt

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emit is just syntactic sugar. If you look at the pre-processed output of function that emits a signal, you’ll see emit is just gone.

The “magic” happens in the generated code for the signal emitting function, which you can look at by inspecting the C++ code generated by moc.

For example a foo signal with no parameters generates this member function:

void W::foo()
{
    QMetaObject::activate(this, &staticMetaObject, 0, 0);
}

And the code emit foo(); is pre-processed to simply foo();

emit is defined in Qt/qobjectdefs.h (in the open-source flavor of the source anyway), like this:

#ifndef QT_NO_EMIT
# define emit
#endif

(The define guard is to allow you to use Qt with other frameworks that have colliding names via the no_keywords QMake config option.)

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