Destruction of a slot's local variables in an event loop

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Hi all,

Is it safe to assume that a slot's local variables will be valid until the end of the event loop?

For example, is it safe to emit a reference to a local variable (see below)? All of Qt's official examples (that I've seen) for signals/slots that involve QString seem to pass them by reference. My short tests with this code also seemed to work fine in Windows 7 and Linux, but I can't help wondering if there's a risk that selectFile() will return (and "path" gets destroyed) before the string can be processed.

MyWidget::MyWidget(QWidget *parent)
{
	QPushButton *pb_browse = new QPushButton("...", this);
	QLineEdit *le_path = new QLineEdit(this);
 
	// ...
 
	connect(pb_browse, SIGNAL(clicked()),
		this, SLOT(selectFile()));
	connect(this, SIGNAL(selected(const QString &)),
		le_path, SLOT(setText(const QString &)));
}

MyWidget::MyWidget(QWidget *parent)
{
	QPushButton *pb_browse = new QPushButton("...", this);
	QLineEdit *le_path = new QLineEdit(this);

	// ...

	connect(pb_browse, SIGNAL(clicked()),
		this, SLOT(selectFile()));
	connect(this, SIGNAL(selected(const QString &)),
		le_path, SLOT(setText(const QString &)));
}

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// A slot
void MyWidget::selectFile()
{
	QString path = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, "Select a file");
 
	emit(selected(path));
}

// A slot
void MyWidget::selectFile()
{
	QString path = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this, "Select a file");

	emit(selected(path));
}

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