Developers gained the ability to adopt Clang warnings globally across the IDE or on a per-project basis, allowing for flexible enforcement of coding standards.
Compare 4.7 features with like Qt Creator 19. Qt Creator 4.7
Users could log events for tracepoints specifically for resource allocation (like malloc and free ). Developers gained the ability to adopt Clang warnings
The integration provided "buckets of warnings" that helped catch potential bugs earlier, such as null pointer constants or macro resolution issues. Key Features and Workflow Improvements Qt Creator 4.7
Solve issues for GDB or Clang configurations. Yet another post to Qt creator 4.7.0