Dear George, I understand your request. I'll think about implementation. Attatched is a shell script to merge cint source into root. You may need to modify this. Thank you Masaharu Goto >Masaharu wrote: > >>Thank you for sending me the request. I implemented following pragma in >>cint5.14.38. > >> #pragma link [C|C++|off] function [scopename]::[funcname]([argtypes]); > >>You can specify scope with '#pragma link -- function'. Other things are >>same as before. > >Is there any chance of using the same syntax for supporting (to some >level) template member functions? I would want template members to be >off by default (unless CINT found one that it knows has been >instantiated anyway, perhaps), but where you could specify an explicit >link to a template member. Smart pointers in particular this would be >handy. > >#pragma link C++ function SmartPointer<X>::SmartPointer<X> >(SmartPointer<Y>); > >for example is a very common idiom for smart pointer classes, so that >you can implicitly convert smart pointers to Derived into smart >pointers to Base. Of course, you can't specify all the possible >conversions, but it may well be possible to specify enough of a subset >to do the task you need to do in interpreted code. > >Being able to turn off particular instantiations of certain functions >is also excellent and well appreciated -- we've already run into >trouble with this with certain template classes, and will make use of >this as soon as we get the version of CINT that implements it in the >version of ROOT we use. > >BTW -- perhaps this should be a different message, but -- is there a >package/script that would allow someone with a version of ROOT to >upgrade just the version of CINT it is running (obviously, one would >have to recompile)? It seems that the released versions of ROOT are >often somewhat behind Masa's current version, and it would be nice to >use, say, version 2.23 of ROOT with cint5.14.38; I know I would use >this functionality if it were available. > >George Heintzelman >gah@bnl.gov >
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