[Openal] Re: OpenAL Specification Documentation vagueness.

[Raymond]

Stephen J Baker wrote:
> In the OpenAL specification document there is a need for some
> cleanup:
> 
> 1) In the section about alBufferData, there are no words explaining
>    what the 'size' parameter means.  It's genuinely ambiguous because
>    (for an AL_FORMAT_STEREO16 for example), the size could be the number
>    of samples *or* the number of pairs of samples *or* the number of bytes.
> 
>    This should be made explicit.
> 

Valid Formats are AL_FORMAT_MONO8, AL_FORMAT_MONO16, AL_FORMAT_STEREO8 
and AL_FORMAT_STEREO16.


Refer to alsa-lib/include/pcm.h

     /** Signed 8 bit */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_S8 = 0,
     /** Unsigned 8 bit */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_U8,
     /** Signed 16 bit Little Endian */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE,
     /** Signed 16 bit Big Endian */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_S16_BE,
     /** Unsigned 16 bit Little Endian */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_U16_LE,
     /** Unsigned 16 bit Big Endian */
     SND_PCM_FORMAT_U16_BE,

Is the audio data in alBufferData signed or unsigned ?