Re: root and the kai compiler

Fons Rademakers (rdm@pcsalo.cern.ch)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:40:34 +0200 (METDST)

Just a correction, ROOT can be linked without problem including its
own new/delete (-lNew) using the latest KAI KCC on Linux. However, for some
reasons Fermi decided to not yet switch to this latest compiler.

So shared memory should work once switching to the latest compiler.

Cheers, Fons.

>
> Hans Wenzel wrote:
> >
> > dear rooters
> >
> > while the gnu compiler version of root seems to work fine under irix 6.3
> > and linux. i get the following result
> > with the version that used the kai compiler (which is the forced
> > standard in the CDF experiment)
> > when i use the shared memory tutorial.
> >
>
> Hans,
> The KAI version of Root has currently two restrictions:
> - The shared memory facility does not work, simply because we have
> not found a way to link with the Root redefined operators New/Delete.
> - The iostream facility is not yet available in CINT.
>
> Rene Brun
> 

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