Re: Deleting TGlobal objects from memory

Germano Percossi wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Is there any way to delete global objects from memory?
> Specifically I need to delete some macro definitions loaded when loading
> my macro.
> I load the macro "macro.cxx" that contains an #include directive for a
> file "macro.hh", that contains some #ifndef and #define commands;
> unloading macro.cxx, macro definitions are still there (obviuosly) but
> this forbid macro.hh to be loaded again.
>
> Till now I tried with (supposing my macro is MACRO_H)
>
> gROOT->GetListOfGlobals()->FindObject("MACRO_H")->Delete()
>
> and all its casted variants but when typing again
>
> gROOT->GetListOfGlobals()->ls()
>
> but arrived at the former MACRO_H position root gives me "segmentation
> violation"
>
> I'd prefer to avoid gROOT->Reset() if possible because there are a lot
> of circumstances that I want to delete my global variables without
> resetting the environment.
>
> I use ROOT v4.00/04 binary version for Linux and gcc 3.3.2

Is there any suggestion? Also this time it would be better to migrate to a new version?
And in this case, it would be better to compile by myself?

Regards

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Germano Percossi
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