RE: [ROOT] Different behaviour (i.e. Crash) of TString on Linux andWindows

From: Valeri Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2004 - 17:00:34 MET


> 
> Hi Valeri,
> 
> I am not sure if you got all my messages - the thread in the ROOTtalk
> digest got really large.


  Sorry, I am still digging through SPAMs and some messages I am reading
in the reverse order :-)

> 
> The latest info is:
> After compiling my own version of Windows, all problems where gone.
> 
> With the old version, I built the ROOT test suite and all programs
where
> working except tstring, which crashed immediately.

Can you send (upload somewhere otherwise my E-mail server will not get
it through) me "tstring.exe"/"tstring.obj" and log of the session of
your "nmake -f Makefile.win32" (Of course if you still keep it?)

Thank you, Valeri

> 
> I am absolutely aware, that there might be a mess of DLLs - the most
> likely reason for this is, that I have updated Visual Studio from
> version 5 to 5SP3 to 6 to 6SP3 to 6SP5 within the last year.
> I took great care, that there is no mess of root libraries.
> Nevertheless the ROOT TString problem is the one and only problem I
have
> seen so far.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help
> 
> Ciao,
> Andreas
> 
> 
> Valeri Fine wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > Let me repeat my question,
> >
> >   "Did you try to build ROOT test suite (especially "tstring"
test)?"
> >
> >   If your problem cause is the "DLL mess" adding new software (like
> > cygwin) to your computer may have ended up with this mess
"increased".
> >
> > I'd like to call your attention the crash you were speaking about
was
> > not reproduced with either ROOT version.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > ----
> > Best regards
> >                    Valeri



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