[Openal] Problem creating Pool of sources on windows system

[Adam D. Moss]

Nigel Fooks wrote:
> I have a sound manager designed to maintain a pool of sources and when 
> it's initialized it has a loop which
> keeps adding sources until an error is returned.
> The problem is that on some systems with an older driver it will keep 
> adding unlimited sources and eventually
> reboot the system.

The maximum number of sources is not specified to be reasonably
finite, so this just isn't the right approach.

 > I have it limited to 64 sources to correct the
> problem, but is there another way of doing it
> that will work better.

An app-defined upper-cap is indeed the best approach.  The
original goal of sources was that they are a cheap resource and
you allocate as many as you need (that is to say, maybe
dozens, or hundreds, or thousands, but not an indefinite
amount), so an unbounded source-limit probing loop is going
to have problems.  A real-life cap of ~32-64 sources is an
artifact of some particular (popular) AL implementations...
I think this is something that may be revised in some way
in the 1.1 spec.

--Adam
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