Hi,

I opened a thread yesterday called "ALSA calls don't work within Mozilla plug- ins", but after more testing, I realize that it is a more global problem, so I submit another request for help with a proper title.

It seems that several ALSA functions either crash or return unpredictable values when called from a dynamic library (.so).

I created a very short program that opens a pcm device, sets the sample rate to

44100 and reads the sample rate back to ensure it's correct : --------------- #include "alsa/asoundlib.h" static char displayString[1024];

char * ALSATest(void) { int err; snd_pcm_t * handle; snd_pcm_hw_params_t *params; unsigned int val,val2; char status[1024];

err = snd_pcm_open(&handle, "plughw:0,0",SND_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK, 0); if(err>=0) { snd_pcm_hw_params_alloca(&params); snd_pcm_hw_params_any(handle, params); val=44100; err=snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate_near(handle,params, &val, NULL); val2=0; err|=snd_pcm_hw_params_get_rate(params, &val2, NULL); if(val!=44100 || val2!=44100 || err!=0) sprintf(status,"ALSA is not working (val2=%d err=%d)",val2,err); else strcpy(status,"ALSA is OK"); snd_pcm_close(handle); } else strcpy(status,"device cannot be opened"); sprintf(displayString,"ALSA %s\nStatus:%s",snd_asoundlib_version(),status); return(displayString); } -------------

If I call this function directly from the main program, it works well (I get "ALSA is OK"). Then if I compile it as a shared library (mysharedlib.so), and in another project I write:

--------------- #include <dlfcn.h> #include "alsa/asoundlib.h"

typedef char * (*ALSAProc)(void);

int main() { void *lib_handle; void *fn; char * str;

lib_handle=dlopen("mysharedlib.so",RTLD_NOW); if (lib_handle) { fn=dlsym(lib_handle,"ALSATest");

if(fn) str=((ALSAProc)fn)(); else str="function not found"; } else str="lib not found";

fprintf(stderr,"%s\n",str);

if(lib_handle) dlclose(lib_handle); return 0; } -------------

I get unpredictable results. Either; - it crashes in snd_pcm_hw_params_any (in the subroutine snd_pcm_hw_params_refine) or - it outputs "ALSA is not working (val2=0 err=2147483647)" or - it outputs ALSA is not working (val2=2147483647 err=2147483647)"

Does anyone have an idea of what could cause this behaviour?

Olivier