[MPlayer-dev-eng] DVB channels parser using glibc %a flag

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:29:01AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:41:37PM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> > Benjamin Zores wrote:
> > >
> > >I had to add the support for DVB in MPlayer under a uClibc environnement
> > >and just found out that the DVB channels parser (the scanf part) is using
> > >the Glibc %a flag extension which is non standard.
> 
> Requiring GNU extensions is not acceptable. Instead glibc should be
> patched to remove support for this crap.. To fix the bug, patch
> MPlayer to work without %a.

Yes, please. This GNU extension is even worse than most others, because
'%a' does have a different meaning for glibc crap and proper scanf
implementations according to SUS.

Joerg