[Openal] OpenAL and VISTA (creating validated installations)

[Daniel PEACOCK]

Hi,

The IsBadWritePtr (and IsBadReadPtr) functions are being used by the
OpenAL32.dll and wrap_oal.dll components.   I guess these functions are now
declared obsolete (but they are still supported in Vista), because there is
nothing to stop a separate thread releasing the memory referenced by the
pointer  *immediately* after a successful call to one of these functions
and before the code that de-references the pointer anyway.

I'll remove these calls from the libraries.

Dan

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Hello,

we are successfully using OpenAL in our simulator
www.aerofly.com. We now want to create a Windows
Vista validated installation using Installshield
Premier 2008. The problem is, that the OpenAL32.dll
and wrap_oal.dll that I need to include seem to have
a deprecated API call which prevents the validation.
Here is the message:

wrap_oal.dll imports deprecated API KERNEL32.dll!IsBadWritePtr

Is there any solution for this? Can new DLL's be built that
don't use these functions or will that be a problem for
older Windows versions?

Any help would be appreciated.


Regards,
   Hans

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