[Openal] alcCloseDevice

[Daniel PEACOCK]

OpenAL v 1.0 did not have a return value for alcCloseDevice - making it
impossible for an AL implementation to tell the application that the device
hadn't been closed properly.   Most of the early implementations therefore
*had* to clean-up to prevent a crash and / or losing resources.    Once
something like that is out in the wild you can't really take it out in case
some existing applications rely on the behaviour.

Of course, every AL application should ideally stop all the Sources
playing, attach NULL Buffers to each one, delete all the Buffers, delete
all the Sources, make the current context NULL, destroy the context and
call alcCloseDevice.  But there is no guarantee that every application will
do that.

Dan

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Hi, I think I discovered a bug in either the documentation or the code not
sure which. The documentation for the alcCloseDevice function says
"ALC_TRUE will be returned on success or ALC_FALSE on failure. Closing a
device will fail if the device contains any contexts or buffers. ",
however, I noticed that you can actually call this function without
destroying the context and it doesn't fail. Is this behavior as designed or
is the documentation incorrect? Thanks.

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