csound 2da

[Avenger]

Anyone knows that the ! means in some csound entries?

Normally the second column contains a single letter (a prefix for the character sounds).

Two entries, however, contain a ! before the regular letter.

WTF is that?

[Taimon]

Looks like you can ignore it, at least in ToB.

It triggers an additional existance check before trying to load the sound resource, but it should have any consequences.

Pseudocode:

bool ret = get_soundset_extension(int soundslot, string ext); // returns 1 if ! else 0
sound_resref = base + ext;
if (ret) {
key = keytable.find_key(sound_resref);
if (key == 0)
   goto after_fetch_resource;
}
fetch_resource(sound_resref);  // this does some setup and also calls keytable.find_key