ALSA expects handles to be of type ALSA_Device, and passing the handle for the default device as a plain string causes a crash as it attempts to deference the string contents itself as a pointer to a string.
Create immutable static ALSA_Device structs for the default devices and pass those as the handles. They are not placed in the hotplug list, and the audio layer doesn't attempt to free ALSA handles, so there is no need to worry about them being erroneously freed.
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