Re: virtual base classes in CINT

Nick van Eijndhoven (Nick@phys.uu.nl)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:56:35 +0100

Masaharu Goto wrote:
>
> Christian,
>
> ROOT does not allow multiple inheritance as far as I understand.
>
> The first case is a CINT problem. Cint tries to map derived class object to
> base class in the dictionary but it is ambiguous.
>
> Second case is a ROOT problem. TObject does not allow multiple inheritance.
> If you do not use any of the ROOT classes, this case will work.
>
> Please go around without using multiple inheritance in ROOT/CINT.
>
> Masaharu Goto
>

Hi Masa and Christian,
ROOT does allow multiple inheritance.
It's only virtual mult. inheritance which is not supported because
of large machine/compiler dependencies.
I am using mult. inheritance myself in various classes without
problems and also the ROOT classes themselves use mult. inh.
(see e.g. all the TAtt... classes).

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                                              Cheers,
                                               Nick.


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