Re: [ROOT] TMinuit mnparm

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 19:14:23 MEST


Hi Marco,
Thanks for reporting the problem in TMinuit::mnparm. Your proposed fix
is correct. It is now in CVS.
I have also removed the quotes when printing parameters between
boundaries.

Rene Brun

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Marco van Leeuwen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Re-initialising a TMinuit parameter after fixing leads to unexpected
> results. I think this is because a fixed parameter is released by
> calling mnfree(1) for the mnparm Member function. This should probably
> bee mnfree(-k). At the ned of the routine the parameter is fixed agaian,
> which is probably the standard MINUIT behaviour...
> 
> One small comment to the same function is that when a parameter has
> limits it's name is surrounded by quites ('), while this is not done for
> the parameters without limits. This looks a bit strange in the output,
> especially because it screws up the columnar make-up of the
> parameter-list.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marco van Leeuwen.
> 



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