Re: [ROOT] dinamic memory allocation within ROOT

From: Henrique de M. J. Barbosa - mestrado (hbarbosa@ifi.unicamp.br)
Date: Fri Nov 29 2002 - 18:22:43 MET


Pasha,

Thanks a lot for the advice, now it works. One more question: do you know 
if it is possible to get the entries from a TObjArray with the proper 
type? 

I mean, in my case they are all TH1D* histograms, but when I do:

  Histo_List[0]

I get a TObject* and not a TH1D*. Then, for instance, if I want to plot
one of the histograms I have to use:

  ((TH1D*) Histo_List[0])->Draw()

to convert the "output" to the correct type and then draw it. It is
possible to do it some other way?

Thanks a lot,

Henrique
****************************************
State University at Campinas - BRASIL
"Gleb Wathagin" Physics Institute
Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology

Henrique Barbosa      The Pierre Auger
PhD Student             Observatory
****************************************


> Hi Henrique, you can use TObjArray of histograms. -best, Pasha
> 
> "Henrique de M. J. Barbosa - mestrado" wrote:
> > 
> > Dear Root Masters,
> > 
> > I have the following problem: I want to build an array of histograms and
> > use this array as a parameter of a function. Well, if I fix the size of
> > the array before passing it to the function:
> > 
> >   void main(void) {
> >     TH1F **histo;                        // I know this can be done
> >     histo = malloc(sizeof(TH1F*)*Size);  //  just by TH1F *histo[Size]
> > 
> >     my_fill(histo);
> >   }
> > 
> >   my_fill(TH1F** htemp) {
> >     for (int i=0; i<Size; i++)
> >        htemp = new TH1F();
> >   }
> > 
> > Then it works perfectly. But my problem is that I want my subroutine to
> > allocate the memory because only within the subroutine I will know what
> > "Size" show be.
> > 
> > I tried to do the following:
> > 
> >   void main(void) {
> >   TH1F **histo;
> > 
> >   my_fill(histo);
> >   }
> > 
> >   my_fill(TH1F** htemp) {
> >     htemp = malloc(sizeof(TH1F*)*Size);
> >     for (int i=0; i<Size; i++)
> >        htemp = new TH1F();
> >   }
> > 
> > But it doesn't work. Any tips of how to do this? I have tried to do
> > some simple tests and I found out that the root behaviour is diferent from
> > the standard c++, maybe this is the problem, I don't know:
> > 
> >  root [0] double x = 3
> >  root [1] &x
> >  Error: reference type x with no initialization  FILE:/tmp/fileVv6eIH_cint LINE:1
> >  Error: x already declared as different type FILE:/tmp/fileVv6eIH_cint LINE:1
> >  *** Interpreter error recovered ***
> >  root [2]
> > 
> > Shouldn't I've got the address of "x" in the code above?
> > 
> > []'s
> > 
> > Henrique
> > ****************************************
> > State University at Campinas - BRASIL
> > "Gleb Wathagin" Physics Institute
> > Department of Cosmic Rays and Chronology
> > 
> > Henrique Barbosa      The Pierre Auger
> > PhD Student             Observatory
> > ****************************************
> 



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