From 8118633466d3acf2f767f60ddc410cca79e6473f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Wicking <paul.wicking@qt.io>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:00:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Add note to Qt::MatchFlags about implementation
 dependent behavior

Fixes: QTBUG-94374
Change-Id: I7f426c92bf0434998d0793eedd405c1a682a28d9
Reviewed-by: Giuseppe D'Angelo <giuseppe.dangelo@kdab.com>
(cherry picked from commit c92c3c19e8ba02eeceff882b71571a076bef504d)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>
---
 src/corelib/global/qnamespace.qdoc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qnamespace.qdoc b/src/corelib/global/qnamespace.qdoc
index 4a5de1774ac..61a00378ec6 100644
--- a/src/corelib/global/qnamespace.qdoc
+++ b/src/corelib/global/qnamespace.qdoc
@@ -2832,6 +2832,11 @@
            the first item and continues until all items have been examined.
     \value MatchRecursive          Searches the entire hierarchy.
 
+    \note Qt::MatchExactly, Qt::MatchContains, Qt::MatchStartsWith,
+          Qt::MatchEndsWith, Qt::MatchRegularExpression, Qt::MatchWildcard, and
+          Qt::MatchFixedString are mutually exclusive. The behavior achieved by
+          setting several of them in a Qt::MatchFlags argument is undefined.
+
     \sa QString::compare(), QRegularExpression
 */