On Thursday 13 March 2008 16:44, you wrote: > At Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:21:51 +0000, > > Alan Horstmann wrote: > > snd_pcm_hw_params_alloca() is part of the user API -right? But > > accomplished as a #define in pcm.h. > > Because alloca can be used only with a macro due to its nature. > > > However if it is called inside a function, and the pointer stored for > > future use, after leaving the function the allocation seems to have gone, > > and attempting thereafter to use the pointer to access the hwparams space > > in another API function results in seg-fault. So would it be better in this case to use the malloc /free functions if possible? Am I right that they are not provided in salsa, so alloca would be necessary to use that lib? Alan _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel