[vlc] Re: Vlc Problems on M$

[Christophe Massiot]

Gildas Bazin <gbazin at netcourrier.com>:

> > It isn't set to NULL, it is set to "", and if you look at 
> > plugins/network/ipv4.c, if !*psz_iface_addr, then we use INADDR_ANY 
> > (which is 0.0.0.0), so I don't see what difference it makes...
> 
> There actually is a bug because you can't save an empty string into the
> config file. Maybe we should surrender strings with double quotes in the
> config file, but I didn't think it was necessary because you cannot 
> differentiate either between an empty string and a NULL string in the 
> preferences interface. This is why I choosed to save all empty slots in
> the 
> preferences interface as NULL strings.

Ha I had understood the complete opposite. In fact I thought there was
a new policy in VLC to always use "" instead of NULL for empty strings.

I guess we'll go for 0.4.6 shortly...

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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