Re: is TMinuit still a FORTRAN implementation?

Fons Rademakers ((no email))
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 23:43:51 +0100 (MET)


Hi William,

TMinuit is a C++ version of minuit (no Fortran involved). However,
currently there is still some global state which prevents multiple
instances of TMinuit. We are planning a complete overhaul of TMinuit
to make it behave like a proper C++ class. Scheduled for early next
year.

Cheers, Fons.

>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to have multiple instances of TMinuit, one implemented inside
> the FCN of the other? I've tried such a beast only to see strange behavior
> while TMinuit is iterating. My only guess is that TMinuit still uses
> FORTRAN calls which limit TMinuit to only one globally shared data heap. Or
> perhaps there's a bug somewhere in my own code??
>
> William Deninger
> deninge@uiuc.edu
>
>

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