[Openal] Max number of sources (and legit id values) for each OpenAL implementation

[E. Wing]

Hi, I am writing some stuff about OpenAL and I would like to get my
facts straight. Can people verify my information about the maximum
number of sources?

Creative Labs:
I recall seeing this in an old mailing list thread.
Generic Software: 256
Generic Hardware: 16-64


OpenAL Soft:
>From the source code, I do see a hard coded value of 256, but there is
other conditional stuff in there so I'm thinking there might be other
potential values?


Mac OS X and iPhone OS:
>From the source code, it looks like the max you can request at a time
(to alGenSources) is 256. However, there doesn't seem to be anything
stopping you from making multiple calls to alGenSources of 256
sources. Probably not the intended behavior, but interesting.

Experimenting on the iPhone, the code seems to be the same here
because multiple calls of 256, give me unique source ids. (I haven't
been able to find the iPhone OpenAL source code.)


Are there any other implementations I'm forgetting?


Also, on this topic, do any implementations actually return 0 as a
valid id? I know the 1.1 spec doesn't reserve any value, but this has
always been a gotcha for me because in OpenGL, 0 is reserved.

Thanks,
Eric