Re: root extension

Valery Fine (fine@bnl.gov)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:14:49 -0500


Hello Mohamed
On 11 Jun 98 at 13:59, you wrote:

> Ok I see what is happening now. But imagining that I will have to
> place this code (which can fairly be automated) to every class (the
> library I am planning to use is huge) I use does not appeal to me.
> Can we extend rootcint so that when a certain flag is set it will
> output a xxx_imp.cc & a xxx_def.h that will be fed to my compiler.
> It could also do some syntactic checks just to make sure.

The code of rootcint is available for you.

But I think you should not mix things.

RootCint generates the dictionary and doesn't change the one's C++
class definition and it reads the header files (*.h) only. It
is not designed to parse the class implemenation (namely *.cxx source
files) and this way it can insert in there no extra line (like
ClassImp).
From my point of view it is better to create some separate
"pre-processor" to generate your C++ as you want and feed the
RootCint.

Valery
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