Aug 26 change in winmm/wineoss/audio.c broke msvc++4.0 installer?

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue Dec 10 11:54:35 CST 2002


I finally tracked down the regression in the MSVC 4.0 installer
to one patch:

http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-cvs/2002/08/0166.html
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Modified files:
	dlls/winmm/wineoss: audio.c

Log message:
	Ove Kaaven <ovek at transgaming.com>
	Tweaks to improve playback performance and reduce sound glitches:
	- wodGetPosition does not send an update message to the player thread;
	this reduces the accuracy of the readout from byte-accuracy to near
	fragment-accuracy, but we save 2-4 context switches and kernel
	scheduling penalties.
	- if FeedDSP runs out of data, do not flush output buffers before
	notifications are sent and given the chance to provide more sound data.
	Do not flush before we're down to the last fragment.
	- messages to the player thread are signaled using Unix pipes instead
	of Win32 synchronization primitives, to avoid having the player thread
	wait for the wineserver (and context switches from/to it) before the
	it can feed more data to the sound card.
	- ring buffer size is increased from 30 to 192 to support some games
	that fires 128 messages at once to determine DMA buffer size.
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Before this patch, clicking on "Exit" in MSVC 4.0 installer worked.
After this patch, it hangs.

Baseline:
inserting disc 1 of MSVC4.0 into drive and mounting it
cvs update -D "2002-08-26 17:49 EDT"
./configure
make depend && make
./wine d:setup.exe
click on exit
it terminates normally

Error case:

cvs update -D "2002-08-26 17:50 EDT"
./configure
comment out #ifdef HAVE_SYS_POLL in dlls/winmm/wineoss/audio.c so it compiles
comment out #define USE_PIPE_SYNC in dlls/winmm/wineoss/audio.c to get closer to
  old behavior
make depend && make
./wine --debugmsg +event,+relay,+wave d:setup.exe > /tmp/bad.log 2>&1
click on exit
it hangs, must kill with SIGINT

Log in http://www.kegel.com/msvc4-setup-wine-20020826-17:50.bad.log.bz2

Problem occurred whether or not I commented out #define USE_PIPE_SYNC

I'd be happy to provide more info.   FWIW I'm running Red Hat 8.0.
- Dan




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