Comment by bpt3
6 days ago
No I would not agree that YAML or JSON parsers in any language are far less likely to have logic errors, and I'm not sure why protobuf (a binary format) would be a good choice for a human readable file.
INI is not a particularly complex format (less complex than YAML for example), and there are existing open source parsers written in C that could have been used.
You can dig in all you want, but this is not an issue with C strings or the INI format.
This isn't even a parser error at all - the INI format comes from DOS/Windows where a trailing carriage return would not be considered part of the value either.