The g_ascii_formatd() function expects the "format" argument to start
with a '%' character, e.g. it should be "%f" or such (this is not
clearly documented in the glib API docs, but visible from the source code).
The usage of "CH%f" for example will trigger an assertion and thus make the
LWLA device unusable in practice (e.g. in PulseView on Windows no probenames
would be shown, and sampling wouldn't work).
Example:
GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_formatd: assertion 'format[0] == '%'' failed
(not exposed in all glib versions or builds of glib on all distros
apparently, some may need G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all or other measures)
From the glib g_ascii_formatd() code:
g_return_val_if_fail (format[0] == '%', NULL);
We now use g_snprintf() instead for simplicity. This has been tested to
fix this specific issue (i.e. the probenames now do show up in PulseView).
This closes bug #270.
Uwe Hermann
Daniel Elstner