[ALICE3] IOTOF: Improve propagation of hit in digitizer stepping

[Marcellocosti]

@maciacco @GiorgioAlbertoLucia

[maciacco]

thanks @Marcellocosti

[alibuild]

Error while checking build/O2/fullCI_slc9 for 7793cb1 at 2026-09-07 20:06:

## sw/BUILD/O2-full-system-test-latest/log
command alien-token-init had nonzero exit code 2


## sw/BUILD/o2checkcode-latest/log
--
========== List of errors found ==========
++ GRERR=0
++ grep -v clang-diagnostic-error error-log.txt
++ grep ' error:'
++ GRERR=1
++ [[ 1 == 0 ]]
++ mkdir -p /sw/INSTALLROOT/d46936155ddbbf3b3a1f03937b05c7fe73b1beb2/slc9_x86-64/o2checkcode/1.0-local1/etc/modulefiles
++ alibuild-generate-module
+ HAS_BIN=
+ HAS_LIB=
+ HAS_CMAKE=
+ HAS_ROOT=
+ '[' 0 '!=' 0 ']'
+ cat
+ printf 'if ![ is-loaded '\''BASE/1.0'\'' ] {\n module load BASE/1.0\n}'
+ echo 'BUILD_REQUIRES=CMake alibuild-recipe-tools defaults-release'
BUILD_REQUIRES=CMake alibuild-recipe-tools defaults-release
+ FULL_BUILD_REQUIRES='CMake Alice-GRID-Utils bz2 ninja UUID FairCMakeModules pytorch_cpuinfo googlebenchmark O2-customization Python-modules-list double-conversion json-c defaults-release MPFR date alibuild-recipe-tools safe_int ninja-fortran'
+ echo 'FULL_BUILD_REQUIRES=CMake Alice-GRID-Utils bz2 ninja UUID FairCMakeModules pytorch_cpuinfo googlebenchmark O2-customization Python-modules-list double-conversion json-c defaults-release MPFR date alibuild-recipe-tools safe_int ninja-fortran'
FULL_BUILD_REQUIRES=CMake Alice-GRID-Utils bz2 ninja UUID FairCMakeModules pytorch_cpuinfo googlebenchmark O2-customization Python-modules-list double-conversion json-c defaults-release MPFR date alibuild-recipe-tools safe_int ninja-fortran
++ env
++ cut -f1 -d=
++ grep -v '^DEFAULT_'
++ grep -v PKGREVISION
++ grep -v ALIBUILD_RECIPE_TOOLS
++ grep REVISION
++ sed -e s/_REVISION//
+ for x in $(env | cut -f1 -d= | grep -v "^DEFAULT_" | grep -v PKGREVISION | grep -v ALIBUILD_RECIPE_TOOLS | grep REVISION | sed -e 's/_REVISION//')
++ eval 'echo $LIBFFI_REVISION'
+++ echo 14
+ REVISION_VALUE=14
++ eval 'echo $LIBFFI_VERSION'
+++ echo v3.2.1-alice1
+ VERSION_VALUE=v3.2.1-alice1
++ eval 'echo $LIBFFI_ROOT'
+++ echo /sw/slc9_x86-64/libffi/v3.2.1-alice1-14
+ ROOT_PATH_VALUE=/sw/slc9_x86-64/libffi/v3.2.1-alice1-14
+ '[' -z 14 ']'
+ echo 'CMake Alice-GRID-Utils bz2 ninja UUID FairCMakeModules pytorch_cpuinfo googlebenchmark O2-customization Python-modules-list double-conversion json-c defaults-release MPFR date alibuild-recipe-tools safe_int ninja-fortran'
+ tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
+ tr - _
+ tr ' ' '\n'
+ grep -q '^LIBFFI$'
[0 more errors; see full log]

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