Pasha, >Hi Rooters, > when runnning relatively long interactive analysis jobs I noticed >that the execution is affected by the changes I make to the source file >of the running macro in case I save the changed macro on disk. >Most of the times my job just crashes. Is there a good reason for CINT >(ROOTCINT) following what is happening on disk *AFTER* the macro has been >loaded and (fortunately) precompiled? > >If there is, it would be very nice if this feature which seems to be quite >important were documented. > regards, pasha. In order to reduce memory consumption, cint reads source code from the file system "on-the-fly". So, unless I/O library buffers the file contents, changin g a running macro affects the execution. I agree this must be documented. Masaharu Goto
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