On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Geoff McLane <ubu...@geoffair.info> wrote: > Hi Vivian, > >>> using anything other than the >>> latest build from Creative Labs? > > Well they could for example be using the openal-soft > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openal-soft/ > which suggests it is version 1.2.??? And has a CVS > download, and uses the 'AL' sub-directory! > Software versions and standard versions are two different things, the OpenAL specification is currently at version 1.1, OpenAL-Soft implements it. Also, that's the wrong place, http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html is the right one, which doesn't use CVS but git.
>>> cause a crash on exit here > > Have not been particularly following ALL the posts on > this, but with MSVC9's debugger you should be able to > 'see' _EXACTLY_ where/when this happens... > > Quite frequently, in Debug mainly, but can happen also > in 'random' memory in Release, it is due to things like - > if ( _data ) > delete _data; // a crash exit > since, in Debug especially, such a variable is likely filled > with a debug value, by the MSVC compiler, deliberately, and > has has never been initialized to NULL in the code... > > This is very common... It seems GCC quite frequently ensures > such 'memory', 'variables' etc are all zeros... I believe in debug mode gcc indeed initialises all memory to 0, this of course should not be done in release mode. Release code should not depend on the value of uninitialised variables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
