Re: [ROOT] on whether to delete root objects

From: Thomas Bretz (tbretz@uni-sw.gwdg.de)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 10:55:49 MET


Hi Rene,

> This will work, but I would not recommend this approach.
> Note that if you insert histPtr in a ROOT collection TList, TObjArray, etc
> if you call list->Delete(), the collection classes check if the object is
> on heap or not. If it is not in the heap, the object is simply removed from the
> list and it is not deleted.

Something I never understood... When is a object 'on the heap'?

Thanks,
Thomas.



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