[MPlayer-cvslog] r29492 - trunk/codec-cfg.c

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:04:40PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 20:21 +0200, reimar wrote:
> > Explain how formats must be ordered in fmt_list so the parser can handle
> > names where one matches the beginning of another.
> 
> > +		// note: due to parser deficiencies/simplicity, if one format
> > +		// name matches the beginning of another, the longer one _must_
> > +		// come first in this list.
> 
> I think that's rather cumbersome. Wouldn't fixing the parser be better?

I think: who cares. "Fixing" code might add a bug, I don't consider it
worth my time.