Re: [AD] crash 16bit fullscreen mode

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 05:38 +1100, aj wrote:
> i have a theory...
> 
> i think i have found a race condition where the graphics driver may be 
> drawing to a surface it no longer has locked, due to alt-tabing away from 
> the app.   is that possible ?
> could it be that during the alt-tab away, the screen bitmap is lost and 
> attempting to draw on it causes a crash ?
> this problem has only been reported to me by some users that claim its a 
> recent bug, so maybe its a change that occured between 4.1.15 and 4.1.16 ?
> 

Hm, so it isn't always reproducible? Sounds like a race condition
indeed.

The changes are here:
http://alleg.sourceforge.net/onlinedocs/en/changes.html

No idea what could cause it.

-- 
Elias Pschernig