[linux-audio-user] sfront 0.78 10/23/01 released

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Subject: [linux-audio-user] sfront 0.78 10/23/01 released
From: John Lazzaro (lazzaro_AT_CS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 04:11:16 EEST


Pick up sfront 0.78 10/23/01 at:

  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html

Change log message:

[1] Sfront buffer overflow
bugfix, caused fatal errors
under Mac OS X. Thanks to
Robert.

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It's amazing a bug like this could have lasted for several years -- the act of writing out the more complicated audio drivers (including the linux, windows, and macos driver) scribbled over a few kilobytes of sfront global memory space.

As it turned out, the globals being scribbled over had served their purpose by the time the overflow happened ... and so the bug didn't cause functional errors. Alignment issues in OS X caused a core dump to unmask the problem.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lazzaro -- Research Specialist -- CS Division -- EECS -- UC Berkeley lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] eduwww.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro -------------------------------------------------------------------------


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