Re: [ROOT] Form on Alpha OSF

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 22:00:23 MEST


Hi Thomas,

We have never claimed that all the C++ constructs working in
compiled mode will also work under CINT. I agree that it would be
nice to have Form working on Alpha.
You seem to be an Alpha guru. Would you be willing to help
in getting Form running on this platform?

Rene Brun

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Thomas Bretz wrote:

> If this is true... Why does printf, sprintf, etc work in the 
> interpreter? It should be possible to implement Form in the same way...
> 
> i simply don't like if I write a macro on one platform and encouter that 
> it doesn't run on another platform.
> 
> Thomas.
> 
> 
> Jiri Masik wrote:
> > Thomas Bretz <tbretz@astro.uni-wuerzburg.de> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>what's the reason, that Form is not supported on Alphas in the interpreter?
> >>
> >>Thomas.
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > Form relies on the implementation of variable arguments functions in
> > Cint which is currently done only for Linux on ia32 and Win32 I think. 
> > You can do grep -r G__VAARG * in Root tree to get an idea what is
> > needed.
> >  
> > cheers
> >         Jiri
> > 
> 



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