Re: is TMinuit still a FORTRAN implementation?

Valery Fine (fine@mail.cern.ch)
Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:49:41 +0100


On 7 Dec 97 at 16:15, William J. Deninger wrote:

> 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??

Some TMinuit class method do have some static datas inside. I
suspect it causes the "wrong" behaviour you observed.
Valery
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