[Scummvm-devel] ScummVM Release 1.0.0 status -- 2009-10-25

[Neil Millstone]

Max wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> seems there is a serious regression in the Full Throttle Mac version,  
> see bug #2890038
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=418820&aid=2890038&group_id=37116 
>  >. It seems to hang in an endless loop in  
> Audio::LinearDiskStream<false, false, true, false>::readBuffer() due  
> to invalid VOC data.
>
> Sadly I have no time to look into this right now, but hopefully  
> somebody else can. I think there are two things to do: First, fix the  
> issue at hand (maybe LinearDiskStream is buggy, maybe the code that  
> feeds data to it is, whatever); secondly, we should figure out how to  
> handle the unknown VOC block code correctly.
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
>   
As a quick fix, the LinearDiskStream code can be disabled.  There is a 
#define which turns this on.  It's probably not of use on any platform 
with >32Mb of RAM anyway.

- Neil