RE: TClass::GetClassInfo now returns void*

Hi Rene,

>You can get the size of a class by simply calling TClass::Size, eg
> TH1::Class()->Size();

My problem is that I only know the name of the class not the class itself or, of course, I could have used sizeof.

Cheers,

Nick
>
>Rene Brun
>
>Nick West wrote:
>> Hi Rene,
>>
>>
>>> 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 - 15:09:35 CEST