Otherwise, if you had a massive, one-time queue buildup, the memory from that
remains allocated until you close the device. Also, if you are just using a
reasonable amount of space, this would previously cause you to reallocate it
over and over instead of keeping a little bit of memory around.
I think this was important for SDL 1.2 because some targets needed
special device memory for DMA buffers or locked memory buffers for use in
hardware interrupts or something, but since it just defines to SDL_malloc
and SDL_free now, I took it out for clarity's sake.
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- It's now always called if device->hidden isn't NULL, even if OpenDevice()
failed halfway through. This lets implementation code not have to clean up
itself on every possible failure point; just return an error and SDL will
handle it for you.
- Implementations can assume this->hidden != NULL and not check for it.
- implementations don't have to set this->hidden = NULL when done, because
the caller is always about to free(this).
- Don't reset other fields that are in a block of memory about to be free()'d.
- Implementations all now free things like internal mix buffers last, after
closing devices and such, to guarantee they definitely aren't in use anymore
at the point of deallocation.
--HG--
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Turns out that libartsc isn't thread-safe, so if we run a capture and playback
device at the same time, it often crashes in arts's internal event loop.
We could throw mutexes around the read/write calls, but these are meant to
block, so one device could cause serious latency and stutter in the other.
Since this audio target isn't in high-demand (Ubuntu hasn't offered a libartsc
package for years), I'm just backing out the capture support. If someone needs
it, they can pull it out of the revision history.
(We probably never noticed because this is meant to block until it fully
writes a buffer, and would only trigger an issue if we had a short write
that wasn't otherwise an error condition.)
