Re: g2root problem

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jan 12 1998 - 10:05:53 MET


Ping Yeh wrote:

> Hello Rooters,
>
>    I was using g2root (from v1.03/08 distribution) on IBM to
> produce .C file from a Geant Zebra geometry file.  I found
> that if there are volumes with names shorter than 4 characters,
> strange things happen.  For example, I have a volume called "L12".
> In the produced .C file the following line shows up:
>
> TBRIK *L12^@1 = new TBRIK("L12^@1","L12^@1","mat22",14.48999,3.60225,.015);
>
> where the ^@ is a representation of NULL character.  Maybe this
> is a bug?  Could someone please take a look?

This problem seems to happen only for Geant files generated on Alpha machines.

A NULL character appears instead of a blank.
I have fixed the problem in the development version.
Thanks for reporting

Rene Brun



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