Changes to macro are not taken into account unless ROOT is restarted

[saesaj]

Thank you for testing it! Yes, that is indeed the behaviour I expect and used to get in previous installations.

In fact, I get this problem with something even simpler:

void tmp() { Int_t i=2; cout << i <<endl; }

If I change i to 3, it still prints 2 unless I restart ROOT.

This is the problem someone else presented in that older thread

Macro loading in root6

Hi everyone, I’ve just installed ROOT 6.04/12 via binary (could not compile it manually on Mac OSX 10.11.2, some errors occurred). The problem is simple: if I change and save a macro’s source code while a ROOT session is open, ROOT seems not to recognize this update, and loads the macro in the older version. For example, if my macro writes a sentence on the screen and I change it after opening the ROOT session, the result of running the macro is displaying the original sentence. Anyone else ha…

I also get the problem they got with unnamed macros and gROOT-reset(): redefintion of i

At this point, all I can do is restart ROOT everytime.