[ROOT] Bug in TH1::Fill()

From: Ray Fliller III (rfliller@bnl.gov)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 18:14:05 MET


  Hello rooters,


  I am using ROOT 3.02/03 CVS as of Nov.12 on LINUX Mandrake.

  I have a class that inherits from a TH2F.  If I try to subtract
two of these historgrams, I get an empty histogram.  To do the subtraction, 
I use TH1::Add(TH1 *h1, TH1 *h2, Double_t c1, Double_t c2), with
c1=1,c2=-1.  Obvious enough.

   But I notice that fEntries is zero for this.  According to TH1.h,
  fEntries is the number of entries in the histogram.  I assume that 
  this is different than the number of bins.  Looking at 
TH1::Fill(Axis_t x, Stat_t w) and TH2::Fill(Axis_t x, Axis_t y, Stat_t w)
I see the fEntries is incremented only once.  I get a different fEntries
if I call TH1::Fill(x,1) N times vs. TH1::Fill(X,N).

  Is this a bug or a feature??

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