Will a pointer contents been deleted after TTree::Fill()?

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Dear experts

I have a customized class that will been filled to a TTree, I wonder do I need to call delete objectA; objectA = nullptr; after every Fill()?

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Hi @Crisps!

No, you should not call delete after every fill.

See the documentation (ROOT: TTree Class Reference):

The object must not be destroyed (i.e. be deleted) until the TTree is deleted or TTree::ResetBranchAddress is called.

You’re creating the object once on the beginning, like here in this tutorial:
https://root.cern/doc/master/tree4_8C.html

Here, the object is this:

  // Create a pointer to an Event object
  Event *event = new Event();

Note that this tutorial has a memory leak because event is never deleted (according to the docs I linked before, it should be kept alive until the TTree is destructed).

I hope this helps!
Jonas