From 56d2f06631e742484187ff55e60f45457cbd0e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ehofman <ehofman>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:56:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Silently ignore previous errors to prevent halting the
 program on silly errors

---
 simgear/sound/soundmgr_openal.cxx | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/simgear/sound/soundmgr_openal.cxx b/simgear/sound/soundmgr_openal.cxx
index 51b66a71..16c17315 100644
--- a/simgear/sound/soundmgr_openal.cxx
+++ b/simgear/sound/soundmgr_openal.cxx
@@ -554,6 +554,9 @@ bool SGSoundMgr::load(string &samplepath, void **dbuf, int *fmt,
 
 #if defined(ALUT_API_MAJOR_VERSION) && ALUT_API_MAJOR_VERSION >= 1
     ALfloat freqf;
+    // ignore previous errors to prevent the system from halting on silly errors
+    alGetError();
+    alcGetError(_device);
     data = alutLoadMemoryFromFile(samplepath.c_str(), &format, &size, &freqf );
     freq = (ALsizei)freqf;
     int error = alutGetError();
-- 
2.39.5