From e82e8b8a1fdff693dae99c925ca34c1af4a032af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laszlo Agocs <laszlo.agocs@qt.io>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:38:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Document Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION is no good in static libs

Change-Id: Iaffa08332c87095a64e25e2da4ed56bfd3d0e84f
Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>
---
 src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp b/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp
index db40b37da9..c0ace26f28 100644
--- a/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp
+++ b/src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp
@@ -2834,6 +2834,10 @@ void QCoreApplication::setEventDispatcher(QAbstractEventDispatcher *eventDispatc
 
     If QCoreApplication is deleted and another QCoreApplication is created,
     the startup function will be invoked again.
+
+    \note This macro is not suitable for use in library code that is then
+    statically linked into an application since the function may not be called
+    at all due to being eliminated by the linker.
 */
 
 /*!