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@alsa-project.org on behalf of Jaroslav Kysela Sent: Fri 3/23/2007 9:50 AM To: intellij Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] 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#g8340c7dc0a... 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

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