Thankyou, I wondered about this myself. point of clarity; if this bit of email illumination had been in the docs, nobody would have wondered. :-) -----Original Message----- From: alsa-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jaroslav Kysela Sent: Fri 3/23/2007 9:50 AM To: intellij Cc: alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: PCM -- no need to release params mem nor close handle? On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, intellij wrote: > I am looking at PCM interface manual > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/pcm.html > > It tells that there are an open and set_params functions but nothing > about close(). Furthermore, the description of open() > http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___p_c_m.html#g8340c7dc0ac37f37afe5e7c21d6c528b > neither tells that. Ok, I have realized from the examples. However, even > the examples demonstrate no params deallocation. You call the > snd_pcm_hw_params_alloca(&hwparams) but never release the allocated > memory. Why? Do 'man alloca' and 'man malloc' and compare these two memory allocation functions. Jaroslav ----- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxx> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
