Core

Build system and Platform support

• The build system has been extended to support out-of-source builds. This means you can build different sets of binaries from one source tree, like:

        mkdir root-debug
        cd root-debug
        ../root/configure --build=debug
  

• The build system now supports cross compilation, where typically you need tools like rootcint, rootmap, etc, to be compiled on the build platform to be able to generate dictionaries for the target platform.
• ROOT has been ported to iOS. This port required the above mentioned changes in the build system. To build ROOT for the iPhone/iPad sumilator do:

      ./configure iossim
      make
  

  To build a native iOS armv7 version do:

      ./configure ios
      make
  

  Both builds create a libRoot.a that can be used to create ROOT based iOS apps (iOS does not allow apps to load non-system dynamic libraries at run time). Some sample Xcode projects using ROOT will soon be made available.

Base

• Change TTime data member from Long_t to Long64_t. On 32-bit systems the Long_t is 32-bits and too small to keep the time in milliseconds since the ROOT EPOCH (1-1-1995). Added new operators:

  operator long long()
  operator unsigned long long()
  

  The existing operators long and unsigned long on 32-bit machines return an error in case the stored time is larger then 32-bit and truncation occurs (like was always the case till now, but silently).
• New method ExitOnException() which allows to set the behaviour of TApplication in case of an exception (sigsegv, sigbus, sigill, sigfpe). The default is to trap the signal and continue with the event loop, using this method one can specify to exit with the signal number to the shell, or to abort() which in addition generates a core dump.
• New command line argument -x which forces ROOT to exit on an exception.
• Add TSystem::AddDynamicPath.

Build

• New option '-t' for rmkdepend to allow the caller to fully specify the name to be used as a target This supersedes the name calculated from the input file name and the -p and -o option.

ACLiC

• Allow ACLiC to use a flat directory structure when a build directory is specified. To use a flat structure do:

     gSystem->SetBuildDir(whereIwant, kTRUE); // the default for the 2nd parameter is kFALSE
  

  Or use '-' in the option of CompileMacro

     gSystem->CompileMacro(myscript,"k-",...);
  

Meta

• Implement polymorphism for Emulated object (still not supporting polymorphism of Emulated Object inheriting from compiled class). This avoids memory leaks when the user data model relies on polymorphism and does not the shared library defining the classes theand avoid splicing if the data is copied.
  TStreamerInfo::New inserts the address of the creating TStreamerInfo into the object. This address is inserted in each emulated that does not inherit from an emulated class and is positioned after all the base classes (which are compiled classes). A derived class will set this value inside each of its emulated base class.
  TStreamerInfo::Destruct and the new method TStreamerInfo::GetActualClass use this information to detect the TStreamerInfo actually used to create the object and hence run the proper emulated destructor.


• Add a new function GenerateDictionary to TInterpreter which allows for the quick and easy creation of a dictionary given one (or more) class name(s) and the name(s) of its header files.

     gInterpreter->GenerateDictionary("vector<vector<float> >;list<vector<float> >","list;vector");
     gInterpreter->GenerateDictionary("myclass","myclass.h;myhelper.h");
  

  This replaces the recommendation of creating a small 'loader.C' script to create the dictionaries.
• Implement a ShowMembers function for interpreted classes, by querying the interpreter for the data member information.
• In order to fix possible buffer overflow of parent string buffer in TMemberInspector, the signature of ShowMember() was changed to no longer require (nor request) the caller to provide a buffer (of length unknown to the callee.)
• Improve the uniqueness of globally visible symbols to allow for the mixing of dictionaries with very similar layout.

Cont

• New functions for TClonesArray:
  • AbsorbObjects(TClonesArray* otherTCA): Allows one to directly move the object pointers from otherTCA to the calling TCA without cloning (copying). The calling TCA takes over ownership of all of the moved objects. otherTCA is left empty upon return.
  • MultiSort(Int_t nTCs, TClonesArray** tcs): Sorts multiple TClonesArrays simultaneously using the calling TCA's objects as the sorting key.
• New function for TSeqCollection: QSort(Object **a, Int_t nBs, TObject ***b): Sort array a of TObject pointers using a quicksort algorithm. Arrays b will be sorted just like a (a determines the sort; nBs is the number of TObject** arrays in b). Uses ObjCompare() to compare objects. This function is used by the new function TClonesArray::MultiSort().
• Add a new option "+" in TClonesArray::Clear. When the option starts with "C+", eg "C+xyz" the objects in the array are in turn cleared with the option "xyz".
• Since the Collection objects do have a name and the Clone method does allow for the name to change, TCollection::Clone was added to implement the name change properly.

Thread

• New static function TThread::IsInitialized