On 2017-05-13 08:40 AM, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been experimenting with adding RtAudio support to get additional > audio backends, sadly RtAudio works really badly unless you can have > exceptions (not a good design of that part of the library IMO, but > still). > Thought I would just ask, as we define no-exceptions, is there a known > reason for this or is it just out of old habit? > Probably the binary is a little bit smaller with no-exceptions but > otherwise I'm uncertain it makes any real difference. > > /Robert > Hi Robert. I didn't know we defined no-exceptions.
When I first came to Linux, I was a C++/Pascal Windows coder using Borland Delphi and C++Builder, where using exceptions is the RULE rather than the... exception, if you'll excuse the pun. So I was surprised to find not much using them in Linux, especially in a big C++ app like MusE. No problem, I thought, less to worry about if we can avoid them. So I have never used them in Linux yet. I don't relish the thought of worrying about hidden system 'cancellation points' and so on. Still curious, a few years ago I Googled exceptions + Linux. Wow, some folks said exceptions are evil. Well, do what you must, to support this feature :-) ----- Random thoughts on native driver support: When you use a native sound system directly, say ALSA or DirectX etc, best results (full access) are when the device is opened in exclusive mode. That's why Jack is an important program because it ALONE is the one central place that opens the device in exclusive mode, blocking other programs from opening it. However, I fully agree that native support is important. I have had my eye on that very old muse-0.6 ALSA audio driver, as you know. Thinking of returning it. The thing is, native support means we get access to the TRUE native analogue-to-digital data format, without float precision headaches: INTEGERS ! Tim. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
