Re: really crazy crash

Hi Tom,

this is now fixed in the trunk; thanks for reporting!

Cheers, Axel.

On 2008-04-22 23:19, Tom Roberts wrote:
> I am trying to debug a >2000 line Root macro by isolating the problem
> into a small macro (it works on 5.12-16 but crashes on 5.18). I keep
> getting frustrated by seemingly trivial crashes that do not seem to be
> the real problem. Here is another one that crashes on 5.16 and 5.18
> (Linux, Fedora Core 8).
>
>
> I thought CINT permitted one to omit the #includes in a macro file. This
> seems to not be the case, except for the remarkable fact that it works,
> but crashes on ".q".
>
> Specifically: if I do:
> .L test5.C
> .q
> root crashes.
>
> If I do:
> .X test5.C
> .q
> it prints "Ntuple 'VirtualDetector/Det1' opened" (i.e. the macro worked
> correctly) and then crashes on the .q.
>
> Indeed, all that is needed is a declaration "TNtuple *ntuple" in the
> class to make this crash on .q.
>
> If I uncomment the #include, all is well. Note that no #include of
> TFile.h seems to be needed, and attempts to display this problem with
> TFile all failed.
>
> What is the difference between TFile and TNtuple?
> Do I really need to #include the class header for every Root class I use
> in a macro?
> How does the macro execute correctly but crash on .q?
>
> (my big macro does crash on .q, but it normally calls
> gApplication->Terminate(0) which does not crash, so this is not a
> problem to my users.)
>
>
> Tom Roberts
>
Received on Wed Apr 23 2008 - 15:37:49 CEST