See the complaint on #4039. This doesn't fix that particular
issue (it's somewhat unrelated), but does solve around
a file parsing problem reported by @void-in
In that order. #1476 was an attempt to salvage the functionality, but
sinn3r found some more bugs. So, undoing that, and undoing #1444 as
well.
First, do no harm. It's obvious we cannot be making sweeping changes in
libraries like this without a minimum of testing available. #1478 starts
to address that, by the way.
FixRM #7752