Re: Length limitation for comment in ROOTCIN

From: Thomas Hadig (hadig@toots.physik.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 17:02:28 MET


Dear Masaharu,

no it is not important, but it happend in a script which creates the
classes automatically. I already updated my script to cut the comments
after 250 characters.

Thanks for the reply.

> Dear Thomas,
> 
> As you observed, length of comment is limited to 255 chars. Exceeding
> this number will cause undesirable effect.
> Is it important to have very long comment string?
> 
> Thank you
> Masaharu Goto
> 
> >
> >Dear Rooters,
> >
> >Is there a limitation in rootcint for the length of the comment behind
> >the ClassDef macro ?
> >
> >If i run rootcint and have a comment longer than 254 characters, i get 
> >compiler errors in the source file created by rootcint.
> >
> >In the trag table, i get entries with:
> >...ails of th"TTgpp_204...
> >where the remainder of the comment is missing as is the "," and some 
> >additional text.
> >
> >Ciao
> >Thomas
> 


Ciao
Thomas

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