Re: TClass::GetClassInfo now returns void*

Nick,

You can get the size of a class by simply calling TClass::Size, eg

   TH1::Class()->Size();

Rene Brun

Nick West wrote:
> Hi Renee,
>
>
>> The idea of the recent change is to reduce the exposition of
>> the CINT interface in the ROOT code in view of the transition
>> to the new version of CINT based on Reflex to be introduced
>> later this year.
>> At the time of the PRO release end of June, the direct calls
>> to CINT will only be in the TCint class.
>> The ROOT classes that were previously calling CINT directly
>> are now calling a TInterpreter virtual interface. Today the
>> only concrete implementation of TInterpreter is TCint. Soon we
>> will have TCint7 (the new version with Reflex) and will be
>> possible to select at startup time which version you want to use.
>> We want to keep the old and new versions for some time
>> (checking results and performance).
>>
>> If you want to be able to run with a future version, I
>> recommend you to call the TInterpreter interface.
>> see examples in the TClass code. TInterpreter and TCint
>> classes have been extended to support all calls to CINT.
>>
>
> Thanks, I am happy to adapt to the TInterpreter but cannot find the
> examples in the TClass code you refer to. Perhaps I misunderstood
> you. I have looked at TClass.h and TClass.cxx for
>
> 24077 2008-05-31 19:39
>
> and the only reference to TInterpreter I can find is:-
>
> #include "TInterpreter.h"
>
> What I need is to find the size of an object given the name of its
> class.
> How do I do that now?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick.
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 02 2008 - 13:58:56 CEST