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From: Spellweaver <spelwevr@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: SsVabTransfer() and sound memory
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 02:44:54 -0500
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The SsVabTransfer() function description states that it
"...transmits the sound source data (VB data)... to the SPU
sound buffer."  I thought that this implied that the data
would be transferred into the private memory used by the SPU,
but I found that if I later reuse the memory that contained
the sound data, the sounds will not play properly (actually,
they don't play at all).
Does this function not actually copy the data?  Or perhaps
it returns before the copy is actually completed?  I can
get my code to work well enough, but I'd like to be able to
free up the memory if it isn't needed for the lifetime of
the program.