Re: Linux root 2.07 tests broken?

Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Wed, 20 May 1998 20:30:31 +0200

Concerning egcs and gcc 2.8. Both compilers come with their own
run time systems so you can only run the egcs version of ROOT
if you have the egcs compiler (and its run-time) installed.

Concerning ANSI C++ RTTI. The standard RTTI is very limited and does
not provide much more than the name of the class to which an object
belongs. There is no information about base classes, data members,
member functions, etc. so it can not really serve as replacement for
the current ROOT dictionaries.

What we probably will start introducing over time (when available
everywhere) is C++ exception handling.

Cheers, Fons.

Christoph Borgmeier wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> that is the runtime type information of egcs. To get g++ compatible
> libraries, you need the compile option -fno-rtti and maybe
> -fno-exceptions.
>
> Have you thought about rebuilding the ROOT rtti on top of the standard
> C++ rtti or do you use other features of the compiler, which is
> already much closer to the standard than gcc 2.7?
>
> Christoph

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