I replyed this matter to Gordon already. Problem was file name extention.
When it is geven as .c , cint takes it as C source which ignores
TFile f(filename); as funtion prototype. Using .C instead will solve
the problem.
Masaharu Goto
>
> Hi Gordon,
>
> on Unix I get the following using your script:
>
> void test (char *filename)
> {
> printf("file = %s\n", filename);
> TFile f (filename);
> if (!f.IsOpen()) printf("f is not open\n");
> if (f.IsZombie()) printf("f is a Zombie\n");
> TFile *t = new TFile (filename);
> if (!t->IsOpen()) printf("t is not open\n");
> if (t->IsZombie()) printf("t is a Zombie\n");
> TFile z ("junk.txt");
> if (!z.IsOpen()) printf("z is not open\n");
> if (z.IsZombie()) printf("z is a Zombie\n");
> }
>
> root [5] .x test.C("junk.txt")
> file = junk.txt
> Error in <TFile::TFile>: file junk.txt does not exist
> f is not open
> f is a Zombie
> Error in <TFile::TFile>: file junk.txt does not exist
> t is not open
> t is a Zombie
> Error in <TFile::TFile>: file junk.txt does not exist
> z is not open
> z is a Zombie
> NULL
> root [6]
>
> this is ok. Also after executing test() the object
> and pointers are not accessable anymore (out of scope).
>
> And when you do:
>
> root [10] gDebug=1
> (int)1
> root [11] .x test.C("junk.txt")
>
> you will see that the TFile dtors are correctly called for
> the two stack based TFile objects f and z.
>
> If you don't get the same output on NT then there is something
> wrong with the NT version. Let me know.
>
> Cheers, Fons.
>
>
>
> Gordon Watts (Brown University) wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm running 1.03/04 on WindowsNT 4.0, Service pack 3. I have the
> > following macro in a file test.c:
> >
> > void test (char *filename)
> > {
> > TFile f (filename);
> > TFile *t = new TFile (filename);
> > TFile z ("junk.txt");
> > }
> >
> > In root I run it with ".X test.c("junk.txt");" Junk.txt does not exist in
> > my current directory, so I expect all three statements to fail. Runnning it
> > shows that the second two do, indeed, produce an error message. No error
> > message is forthcoming from the first TFile delc. In fact, the object "f"
> > doesn't even seem to exist! (i.e. I can't do a IsOpen on it). I searched
> > the web site and documentation the best I could and the only clue I could
> > come up with is that TFile's constructor wants an argument of Text_t. I
> > tried replacing the char * with a Text_t * but it didn't change anything.
> > BTW, the error message from the second TFile decl indicates that the
> > "junk.txt" string is getting in just fine.
> >
> > I also looked at the root/cint docs to see if there was some restriction on
> > stack created objects, but I didn't see any references...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gordon.
>
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