[FFmpeg-devel] regression - mpeg2 interlace/topfield flags not set anymore

[christophelorenz]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:33:14AM +0100, christophelorenz wrote:
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>>Rich Felker wrote:
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>>>No, it breaks things on CORRECT platforms for the sake of working
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>>>around a bug on BROKEN platforms. This is unacceptable.
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>>If tomorrow someone writes a piece of code that follows C99 standard and 
>>works ok on xxx but fails under linux, what will happen ?
>>After that will come C102, C150, C200 and all will be different again 
>>and broken again.
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>>We live in a world full of unacceptable things (more important than a 
>>computer standards), however if you want to move on, you have to make 
>>compromises.
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>>I can hardly believe it is the first time ff contains a workaround for 
>>some faulty implementation.
>>Unless you're coding hello world, I can safely say that all libs on all 
>>platforms are broken somewhere. Just that some are less than others....
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>Your rant is misplaced. I never in this thread said you can't work
>around broken platforms, just that you cannot cause regressions on
>valid platforms in the process. The traditional development model of
>special-casing every known broken platform and failing to support a
>not-already-known but fully-standards-conformant platform at all needs
>to DIE.
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>I still think this issue should be addressed with libbrokenos. But I
>won't object to any workarounds that do not bloat or break working
>systems. (Including our own implementation of strtod in ffmpeg would
>be bloat; using strtol whenever "0x" is seen would be breaking
>functionality, namely the ability to provide bit-exact floats.)
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You're right. Sorry about this.
And I will definitely report this problem to the mingw project.

But the background problem stays...
If we can't change the model because other than hex is unacceptable, if 
we can't re-implement strtod, workaround the 0x interger parsing etc...
I now wonder how we can get around this.

#ifdef __MINGW32__ ?
Change solaris and win32 docs to says "-flags    (broken on this os, use 
last year's version)" ?

Appart from that, I think that relying on a new functionnality like hex 
floats parsed in a string->double function is like putting a banana 
under your shoe.
But that's a personnal point of view and I understand some can't agree 
on that and want to use all new features.

Chris.