Alan Teeder wrote:
> Eric
> 
> An aircraft that I am developing caused Flightgear to crash on the Vista 
> box, but not on the XP one.
> This I traced to some bad coding in my JSBsim aero file:-
> 
>                <table>                                <!-- Ch-delta 
> elevator -->
>                      <independentVar lookup="row">
>                      fcs/elevator-pos-deg</independentVar>
>                      <tableData>
> 
>                   <!-- **********************************************
>                        No surface deflections specified in input file
>                        ********************************************** -->
> 
>                      </tableData>
>                   </table>
> 
> It was an empty table generated by Datcom+ which I had not got around to 
> filling in.
> The XP machine, which I use most of the time does not hiccup at this.
> 
> Flightgear on the Vista laptop also crashes with something that appears to 
> be related to the sound patches, AND also every time that I exit.
> 
> The XP box sees none of these problems.
> 
>>From this I now believe that the problem is that the Vista laptop is less 
> tolerant of run-time errors than the XP box.
> 
> As far as Sample_openal.hxx is concerned all I can guess from my debug 
> sessions at is that there is some kind of a problem at the time that 
> "Rumble.wav" is used and it is even possible that the problem is at the XML 
> code level.

It's not getting easier to track down. Although maybe it indicates an 
uninitialized variable or something like that.

It might even be allocated memory that is reserved at an unrelated piece 
of code but that overwrites the section that gets freed by the soundmanager.

Erik

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