Now you can pretend the config file is quite literally command line
values dumped into a file, e.g.
--option1=value
--option2=value
...
although the underlying mechanisms are quite different.
Until now it used both char[] and bstr variants in the same code, which
was nasty. For example, the next commit would have additionally required
using memmove() to remove the prefix from the char[] string.
This parses "%len%string" escapes, where string can contain any
characters. This method of escaping has also been used in other parts
of mplayer and mpv, so it's not a new idea.
(Also, don't confuse with URL encoding.)
Needed by the following commit.
core is used in many unix systems for core dumps. For that reason some tools
work under the assumption that the file is indeed a core dump (for example
autoconf does this).
This commit just renames the files. The following one will change all the
includes to fix compilation. This is done this way because git has a easier
time tracing file changes if there is a pure rename commit.
wm4
Stefano Pigozzi