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From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Subject: Re: While writing to speaker sometimes segmentation
 fault comes.
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:07:20 +0100
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To: ranjith vs <ranjithvs@iwavesystems.com>, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
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ranjith vs wrote:
> i'm getting segmentation fault in the snd_pcm_writei function.

Then there's something wrong with the code that calls it.

I'd guess that you computed the frames parameter as bytes.

> And one more thing is that eventhough I try to set the buffer size to
> 4096. It is setting it's own value.

The buffer size is constrained by the hardware capabilities.


Regards,
Clemens