[Openal] alcCloseDevice

Jason Daly jdaly at ist.ucf.edu
Thu Dec 6 14:15:42 PST 2007


Quattro IV wrote:
> 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.

It's more likely that the documentation is correct and the 
implementation is wrong.  This is one of those subtle things that 
probably wasn't tested very well.  Which implementation/platform are you 
using?

-- 

--"J"

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	--Neil Peart

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