winecfg: Problems with audio configuration

[Joseph Garvin]

Sorry, I assumed that there would be some form of querying the arts 
daemon rather than lib calls, which would make crashing avoidable. Guess 
things don't work that way :P

Robert Reif wrote:

> Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:14:02AM -0500, Robert Reif wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Saulius Krasuckas wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> * On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Robert Reif wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>> The crash occurs in libartsc.so.0 as shown above.
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>>> And why it can't be libartscbackend.so.0 ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> The point is that it is not crashing in winecfg or any wine code at 
>>> all.  Adding an exception handler to catch a crash in an external 
>>> library may work but it's a workaround for a broken external 
>>> library.  The external library needs to be fixed.
>>>   
>>
>> Depends. If we are invoking it with "invalid" or "uncommon" parameters,
>> then we do have something to be "fixed" (read: corrected) in Wine.
>> Could that be the case here?
>> However of course the external library ideally should never crash on
>> invalid input, so they also have a bug to be fixed.
>>
>> Andreas Mohr
>>
>>  
>>
> Did you look at the code?  The line:
>    ARTS_Init();
> is what's crashing!  This is the first call to the library.  Clearly 
> an arts library bug.
>
>