MakeClass: fChain should be initialized to NULL

Dear ROOT developers,

 while debugging a program of mine, I run across something that in my opinion should be fixed in ROOT. If you initialize a class created using TTree::MakeClass() but the generating ROOT file is missing, the class memeber fChain remains a dangling pointer. In fact, in Init(TTree* tree) you can see that:

if (!tree) return;
fChain = tree;

So if tree==NULL, fChain is left pointing to a random memory location.

In my case, when I accessed this non-NULL fChain my program crashed. Fixing it would be easy: in the class constructor just set fChain = NULL before fetching the TTree object from the default file.

Regards,
Riccardo

Hi Riccardo,

Thanks for your report, it is fixed by revision 41640 of the trunk.

Cheers,
Philippe.