Re: Something scribbles over memory in 2.3.18 (maestro?)

Zach Brown (zab@zabbo.net)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:17:59 -0400 (EDT)


> I realize that my testing of this new driver were all conduct by software
> that don't use memory mapping for sending sound (and it was completly ok)
> but when I tried intensively mpg123 on a toshiba 4060, I encountered
> the same problem : like memory corruption randomly...

yup, the pdfs lied to us about the wavecache interface. so under certain
memory allocation patterns the driver can probably scribble on memory.
bad juju. its fixed (well, worked around) in the next driver that I'll
hopefully be releasing in a few days.

-- zach

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