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| 2 | Geant4 1.0 Release Notes |
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| 3 | ------------------------ |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | 7th December 1999 |
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| 6 | |
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| 7 | These are the main new features/fixes included in this release (for the |
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| 8 | detailed list of fixes/additions, please refer to the related History files): |
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| 9 | |
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| 10 | o Electromagnetic Processes: |
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| 11 | - Multiple scattering: fine tuning and fixes for low energy e-; |
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| 12 | inclusion of nuclear size effect for high energy (e+,e- > 100 MeV, |
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| 13 | hadrons > 1 GeV); |
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| 14 | - IonisationPlus: improved code and testing, for electrons and hadrons. |
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| 15 | - LowEnergy: implemented hadron and ion ionisation; minor fixes in |
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| 16 | photo electric process. |
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| 17 | - Xrays: fixes in Cerenkov process. |
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| 18 | - Created new examples in examples/extended/electromagnetic. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | o Geometry: |
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| 21 | - Field: minor fixes, more access to user parameters and clearer warnings; |
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| 22 | - CSG/Booleans: fixes and more detailed unit tests; |
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| 23 | - BREPS/STEP: fix to the NIST STEP reader for complex surfaces; |
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| 24 | - Volumes: first implementation for visualization of voxels; |
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| 25 | - Transportation: added protection for zero step in field. |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | o Globals: |
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| 28 | - STLInterface: |
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| 29 | major modifications for removing all references to Rogue Wave classes; |
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| 30 | removed wrappers for hash dictionaries; reorganised classes/files. |
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| 31 | - management: |
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| 32 | introduced 'g4std' wrappers and keywords for migration to the ISO/ANSI |
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| 33 | C++ standard and usage of the std namespace; fixed minor bug in |
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| 34 | G4PhysicsVector. |
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| 35 | |
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| 36 | o Hadronic Processes: |
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| 37 | - new isotope-production models for neutron induced production and |
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| 38 | corresponding design updates in hadronic/management; |
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| 39 | - additional string model for proton induced reactions; |
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| 40 | - design iteration on multi-fragmentation; |
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| 41 | - memory usage optimization in the neutron transport. |
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| 42 | NOTE: an updated set of neutron data files is now required. |
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| 43 | |
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| 44 | o Particles: |
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| 45 | - introduced dynamical electric charge in G4DynamicParticle to allow |
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| 46 | change of charge for ions; |
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| 47 | - introduced new G4IsotopeTable to manage excitation energy, lifetime, |
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| 48 | and decay modes for isotopes; |
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| 49 | - corrected identifier for isotopes Promethium and Prasceodym; |
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| 50 | - corrected spelling for file-names and keyword "barion" to "baryon". |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | o Persistency: |
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| 53 | - added association of HitsCollection and PrimaryVertex to G4PEvent; |
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| 54 | added persistency of Boolean solid types; fixes for ODMG compliance; |
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| 55 | added G4PPRimaryParticle; |
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| 56 | - added new examples in examples/extended/persistency. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | o Visualization: |
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| 59 | - introduced visualization of *components* of a boolean solid. |
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| 60 | Visualisation of the *result* of the boolean operation will be |
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| 61 | available in a future release; |
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| 62 | - introduced new commands (use help <command name> for more information): |
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| 63 | /vis/scene/add/logicalVolume |
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| 64 | /vis/viewer/update |
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| 65 | - improvements to FukuiRenderer (DAWN): |
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| 66 | made destination directory of g4.prim and g4.eps customizable |
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| 67 | with the environmental variable G4DAWNFILE_DEST_DIR; auto |
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| 68 | incrementation of output file names is now supported; |
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| 69 | - removed ray tracing, pending re-implementation. |
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| 70 | |
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| 71 | Notes: |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | o Geant4 1.0 is based on STL. All direct references to Rogue Wave have |
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| 74 | been removed from the code. See notes below. |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | o The code released in Geant4 1.0 is not ISO/ANSI C++ compliant. |
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| 77 | A future minor release or patch will be provided that |
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| 78 | will include the ability to choose between using namespaces in |
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| 79 | ISO/ANSI mode or using traditional style "includes". |
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| 80 | |
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| 81 | This code and some binary libraries are available through our "Source |
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| 82 | Code" Web page: |
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| 83 | - see our Geant4 Home Page (http://cern.ch/geant4). |
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| 84 | |
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| 85 | Please refer to the Geant4 User Documentation |
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| 86 | (http://cern.ch/geant4/G4UsersDocuments/Overview/html) |
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| 87 | for further information about using Geant4. |
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| 88 | Updates to the documentation for Geant4 1.0 are still in preparation and are |
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| 89 | expected to be published within three weeks. |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | |
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| 92 | Contents |
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| 93 | -------- |
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| 94 | |
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| 95 | 1. Supported and Tested Platforms |
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| 96 | 2. CLHEP 1.4 |
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| 97 | 3. The Standard Template Library (STL) |
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| 98 | 4. Persistency |
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| 99 | 5. Compiler Specific Problems |
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| 100 | 6. Known Run-Time Problems |
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| 101 | 7. Compilation Warnings |
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| 102 | 8. Known Run-Time Warnings |
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| 103 | |
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| 104 | |
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| 105 | 1. Supported and Tested Platforms |
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| 106 | --------------------------------- |
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| 107 | |
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| 108 | o SUN Solaris 5.6, C++ 4.2 patch 104631-04. |
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| 109 | o HP 10.20, aCC C++ B3910B A.01.18 or A.01.21 |
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| 110 | o Linux 2.0.35, gcc C++ egcs-2.91.66 (egcs 1.1.2). |
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| 111 | This configuration was tested in the RedHat 5.1 distribution, but |
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| 112 | versions of Geant4 have also been compiled successfully on RedHat 6.1, |
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| 113 | Debian and Suse distributions. |
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| 114 | |
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| 115 | Platforms also tested but giving rise to some problems - see below: |
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| 116 | |
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| 117 | o DEC V4.0, cxx C++ V6.1-027. |
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| 118 | o NT 4.0 with Service Pack 4 and Cygnus Tools b20 with: |
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| 119 | Visual C++ 6.0 Service Pack 2 |
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| 120 | |
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| 121 | Platforms configured but not tested and not supported: |
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| 122 | o SGI V6.5.5, CC 7.2.1 with ObjectSpace |
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| 123 | o AIX 4.3.2, xlC compiler with ObjectSpace |
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| 124 | |
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| 125 | 2. CLHEP 1.4 |
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| 126 | ------------ |
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| 127 | |
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| 128 | Geant4 1.0 requires the installation of CLHEP 1.4. |
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| 129 | |
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| 130 | See CLHEP 1.4 (http://cern.ch/clhep/INSTALLATION/clhep.html). |
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| 131 | |
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| 132 | The following platform specific instructions apply: |
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| 133 | |
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| 134 | DEC: Do *not* use the compiler option "-std strict_ansi". |
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| 135 | |
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| 136 | NT: After configure, edit the file config/CLHEP-x86-cygnus-win32 |
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| 137 | and comment out "#define HEP-USE-STD 1". |
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| 138 | |
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| 139 | |
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| 140 | |
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| 141 | 3. The Standard Template Library |
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| 142 | -------------------------------- |
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| 143 | |
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| 144 | The following versions of STL have been tested: |
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| 145 | |
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| 146 | ObjectSpace STL on |
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| 147 | DEC, HP, NT and SUN. |
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| 148 | |
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| 149 | See ObjectSpace (http://www.objectspace.com). |
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| 150 | |
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| 151 | "Native" STL on: Linux, HP. |
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| 152 | |
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| 153 | This is selected at installation/compile time by the environment variable |
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| 154 | G4USE_OSPACE in the case of the former - see documentation. |
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| 155 | |
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| 156 | NOTES: |
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| 157 | - Be aware that by default, the installation scripts will expect to use |
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| 158 | the native STL implementation. You must set the G4USE_OSPACE variable |
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| 159 | in the environment in order to select the ObjectSpace implementation. |
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| 160 | |
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| 161 | - Platform specific setup: |
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| 162 | o DEC: ObjectSpace is required. |
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| 163 | o HP: either ObjectSpace or native STL can be used. In order to use |
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| 164 | native STL you must also set the environment variable |
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| 165 | G4NO_STD_NAMESPACE. |
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| 166 | o SUN: ObjectSpace is required. |
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| 167 | o Linux: native STL is required. |
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| 168 | o NT: ObjectSpace is required. |
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| 169 | Support for native STL and ISO/ANSI installation will be added |
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| 170 | soon (future patch or minor release). |
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| 171 | |
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| 172 | - A future minor release or patch will allow ISO/ANSI compliant installations. |
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| 173 | Their characteristics will be: |
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| 174 | o DEC: Native STL will be used |
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| 175 | o HP: The setup for native STL will trigger by default the ISO/ANSI |
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| 176 | installation (set G4NO_STD_NAMESPACE in the environment to avoid it.) |
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| 177 | o SUN: Support for CC 5.0 compiler and native STL (ISO/ANSI installation) |
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| 178 | o NT: Support for native STL and ISO/ANSI installation |
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| 179 | The modifications to support these installations will be tested soon. |
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| 180 | They will be made available in a patch or minor release. |
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| 181 | |
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| 182 | Geant4 1.0 is the first release requiring the Standard Template Library. |
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| 183 | In the interest of stability, a significant part of the code still makes use |
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| 184 | of the "STL Interface" wrapper classes. For these the emphasis has remained |
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| 185 | on correct behaviour, rather than performance. The size of libraries and |
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| 186 | executables can appear considerably larger than the previous Rogue-Wave based |
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| 187 | versions. |
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| 188 | |
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| 189 | 4. Persistency |
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| 190 | -------------- |
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| 191 | |
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| 192 | - Platforms |
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| 193 | |
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| 194 | Persistency in Geant4 1.0 release has been tested on the following |
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| 195 | platforms/software versions: |
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| 196 | |
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| 197 | G4SYSTEM OS C++ compiler HepODBMS Objectivity |
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| 198 | --------- ----------- ------------ --------- ----------- |
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| 199 | SUN-CC SunOS 5.6 CC 4.2 0.3.1.0 5.2 |
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| 200 | HP-aCC HP-UX 10.20 aCC A.01.18 0.3.0.1 5.1.2 |
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| 201 | Linux-g++ Linux RH5.1 egcs 1.1.2 0.3.0.1 5.1.2 |
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| 202 | |
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| 203 | A patch to run persistency examples on DEC-cxx will be released |
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| 204 | later, pending a fix to HepODBMS library. |
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| 205 | |
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| 206 | - Known Problems |
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| 207 | |
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| 208 | 1) The following warning messages appear on some platforms during the |
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| 209 | installation of the libraries and the compilation of the example |
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| 210 | files. The message comes from the parser of the Objectivity |
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| 211 | preprocessor. It can be ignored. |
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| 212 | |
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| 213 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 214 | "/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/include/CC/generic.h", line 29: warning: omission of |
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| 215 | explicit type is nonstandard ("int" assumed) |
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| 216 | extern genericerror(int, char*); |
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| 217 | ^ |
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| 218 | "/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/include/CC/iostream.h", line 781: warning: integer |
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| 219 | conversion resulted in a change of sign |
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| 220 | unsafe_istream& wignore(int=1, wchar_t=WEOF); |
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| 221 | ^ |
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| 222 | "/opt/SUNWspro/SC4.2/include/CC/iostream.h", line 962: warning: integer |
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| 223 | conversion resulted in a change of sign |
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| 224 | istream& wignore(int=1, wchar_t=WEOF); |
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| 225 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 226 | |
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| 227 | 2) The following warning messages appear during the installation of the |
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| 228 | library. This is due to a design choice of the persitent object |
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| 229 | and it can be safely ignored. |
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| 230 | |
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| 231 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 232 | warning: persistent-capable class member type is a problem |
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| 233 | The type of base class vector<G4VPhysicalVolume * > is a problem |
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| 234 | The type of member vector<G4VPhysicalVolume * >::start_ is pointer |
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| 235 | The type of member vector<G4VPhysicalVolume * >::finish_ is pointer |
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| 236 | The type of member vector<G4VPhysicalVolume * >::end_of_storage_ |
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| 237 | is pointer |
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| 238 | The type of member vector<G4VPhysicalVolume * >::alloc_ is a |
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| 239 | problem |
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| 240 | The type of member allocator<G4VPhysicalVolume * >::impl_ is |
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| 241 | pointer |
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| 242 | G4VPhysVolRefVArray transPhysVolPtrs; |
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| 243 | ^ |
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| 244 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 245 | |
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| 246 | 3) The following warning messages appears during the installation of the |
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| 247 | libraries and the compilation of the example files. Dependency |
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| 248 | file is used to solve the GNUmake dependencies inside the Geant4 |
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| 249 | categories and it can be safely ignored. |
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| 250 | |
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| 251 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 252 | In file included from /afs/cern.ch/sw/lhcxx/specific/@sys/HepODBMS/0.3.1.0/ |
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| 253 | include/HepODBMS/odbms/HepODBMS.h:75, |
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| 254 | from include/G4PersistentTypes.hh:21, |
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| 255 | from include/G4VPersistentSubMan.hh:34, |
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| 256 | from src/G4VPersistentSubMan.cc:16: |
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| 257 | /afs/cern.ch/sw/lhcxx/specific/sun/Objectivity/5.2/include/oo.h:57: |
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| 258 | warning: No include path in which to find generic.h |
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| 259 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 260 | |
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| 261 | 4) The following error messages appear at the end of the library |
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| 262 | installation, and it can be safely ignored. |
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| 263 | |
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| 264 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 265 | installing schema header files ... |
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| 266 | cp: cannot access /afs/cern.ch/sw/geant4/stt/ref+/AIX-xlC/debug/persistency/ |
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| 267 | STL/tmp/SUN-CC/G4pglobal/*.hh |
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| 268 | schema header file does not exist, so ignore the error message... |
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| 269 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 270 | |
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| 271 | 5) The following warning message appears at the runtime of the persistency |
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| 272 | examples, which is generated by HepDbApplication in HepODBMS. |
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| 273 | It can be ignored. |
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| 274 | |
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| 275 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 276 | Opening federated database OO_FD_BOOT. |
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| 277 | WARNING: g4example: Could not find naming root directory: |
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| 278 | Naming will be disabled. |
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| 279 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 280 | |
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| 281 | |
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| 282 | 5. Compiler Specific Problems |
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| 283 | ----------------------------- |
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| 284 | |
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| 285 | o DEC V4.0, cxx C++ V6.1-027. |
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| 286 | |
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| 287 | We have found cases of mis-compilation of min and max templates |
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| 288 | on DEC. We have traced those which cause serious malfunction |
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| 289 | but there is no guarantee that there are no other cases. |
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| 290 | Detailed inspection of assembler output suggests that this |
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| 291 | problem might not be confined to min and max. This has been |
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| 292 | reported to DEC/Compaq. We understand a new version 6.2 of the |
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| 293 | compiler is now available. However we cannot guarantee correct |
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| 294 | execution of Geant4 on DEC with the current version of the |
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| 295 | compiler. |
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| 296 | |
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| 297 | o NT |
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| 298 | |
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| 299 | - Due to limitations of the VC++ optimiser, testing was done using |
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| 300 | the debuggable version only. |
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| 301 | - g3tog4 has not been ported to NT. |
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| 302 | - During the making of dependency files during compilation there |
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| 303 | are repeated warnings ("Strstrea.h not found") - this is an |
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| 304 | artifact of using g++ for this purpose. |
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| 305 | - Ignore linker warnings: "conflicts with use of other libs". |
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| 306 | - Ignore linker errors: "unresolved external symbol |
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| 307 | __imp__MessageBoxA@16". |
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| 308 | |
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| 309 | |
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| 310 | 6. Known Run-Time Problems |
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| 311 | -------------------------- |
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| 312 | |
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| 313 | o Reading STEP files on DEC with optimised libraries causes a Memory |
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| 314 | fault - but see notes on DEC above. |
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| 315 | o In rare cases heavy ions appear not to be properly stopped and killed |
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| 316 | in tracking, therefore Geant4 sticks making many small steps. This |
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| 317 | behaviour has been observed on SUN and is under investigation. |
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| 318 | o On WindowsNT, a problem can occur reading the data files associated with |
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| 319 | the environment variable G4LEVELGAMMADATA. (Usually the value |
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| 320 | for this variable is $G4INSTALL/geant4/data/PhotonEvaporation .) |
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| 321 | A correction that resolves this anomalous behaviour will be issued |
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| 322 | soon, in a patch. |
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| 323 | |
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| 324 | |
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| 325 | 7. Compilation Warnings |
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| 326 | ----------------------- |
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| 327 | |
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| 328 | There are compilation warnings on some platforms. We do not believe |
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| 329 | that any will lead to incorrect run-time behaviour, but we are working |
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| 330 | on reducing them. |
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| 331 | |
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| 332 | |
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| 333 | 8. Known Run-Time Warnings |
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| 334 | -------------------------- |
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| 335 | |
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| 336 | The following messages can be written to error output while tracking. We |
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| 337 | believe none give rise to incorrect behaviour. |
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| 338 | |
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| 339 | o G4PropagatorInField::LocateIntersectionPoint: Warning: Integration |
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| 340 | inaccuracy requires an adjustment in the step's endpoint Two |
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| 341 | mid-points are further apart than their curve length difference: |
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| 342 | Dist = xxx curve length = yyy |
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| 343 | o Warning in G4Navigator::ComputeStep: The Step's starting point has |
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| 344 | moved... |
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| 345 | o G4PropagateInField: Warning: Particle is looping |
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| 346 | - tracking in field will be stopped. |
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| 347 | It has performed 10000 steps in Field while a maximum of 10000 |
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| 348 | are allowed. |
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| 349 | |
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| 350 | For very high energy muons (ex. 1 TeV) warnings of this kind might be |
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| 351 | generated: |
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| 352 | |
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| 353 | o G4ParticleChange::CheckIt : the Momentum Change is not unit vector !! |
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| 354 | Difference: 1e-09 |
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| 355 | G4ParticleChange::CheckIt |
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