Re: CInt and function pointers...

Hi !

> At this moment, I am an active user of CINT and ROOT, however not active for support and enhancement.  Supporting multiple applications + multiple platforms and continuing compiler version up turned out 
> to be too much, together with my other work.  I am still using old Visual C++6.0/7.2 on Windows. gl and Win32API are the most tricky libraries among all.


This is so typical - you're considering youself as support personnel for all compilers and platforms, meanwhile I think you should take different perspective - 
you're developing master codeline, and visual c++ is a clue to your script. :-)  I would propose to make special kind of define which identifies CINT scripter
and allow developers to patch existing environments to hide incompatibilities. For example:

windows.h:
...
void
#ifdef CINT
    __stdcall
#endif
      myfunc(void);
...

however - this is not always doable - hit already against incompatibilities with call conventions.

Anyway - are you willing to assist / help me if I'll take a swim into cint source code ?
(I'll analyze it for suitability for further development, but after that I don't see any problem).

It would be also good if you could give me good contacts to chat directly - skype id's / etc...

We could use this forum as well, but for moderated information.

 
--
Have a nice day!
Tarmo.


----- Original Message -----
From: "gotom@..." <gotom@...>
To: Tarmo Pikaro <tapika@...>
Cc: cint@...
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [CINT] CInt and function pointers...

Hi Tarmo,

Thank you very much for your remark. 
I needed such tool as a user and happened to be the one who actually create it.

I used to support CINT and did a lot of enhancements.
At this moment, I am an active user of CINT and ROOT, however not active for support and enhancement.  Supporting multiple applications + multiple platforms and continuing compiler version up turned out to be too much, together with my other work.  I am still using old Visual C++6.0/7.2 on Windows. gl and Win32API are the most tricky libraries among all.

Instead, I am using ROOT as multiplatform graphics, database and house keeping platform. People in CERN and Fermi-Lab are committed to support ROOT/CINT, at least, as long as they operate LHC experiements at CERN which is beyond 2030, I guess.  ROOT looks quite heavy at the beginning, but it is really nice once you learn.

Thank you
Masaharu Goto