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

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:33:14AM +0100, christophelorenz wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > No, it breaks things on CORRECT platforms for the sake of working
> >
> >around a bug on BROKEN platforms. This is unacceptable.
> >  
> >
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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....

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.

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.)

Rich