Re: [AD] crash 16bit fullscreen mode

[aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:11 AM 13/11/2004, you wrote:
> 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.


it is re-producible.
it doesn't crash in debug builds, just release build :(
so tracking it down is really hard.
i've started a thread on a.cc about it also, that i will continually update
in the hope that others have some evidence too, that might lead to a fix.

please read the a.cc thread for additional info..
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/view_thread.php?_id=429489







> The changes are here:
> http://alleg.sourceforge.net/onlinedocs/en/changes.html
>
> No idea what could cause it.
>
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