Re: Bug#155969: groff: core dump triggered by latin1(7)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:13:44PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> Trying it by hand:
>       cd /tmp
>       zcat /usr/share/man/man7/latin1.7.gz > l.7
>       /usr/bin/zsoelim l.7 | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc
> produces the following on stderr:
>       troff: Failed assertion at line 2996, file `node.cc'.
>       groff: troff: Aborted (core dumped)
>       grotty:l.7:525:warning: no final `x stop' command
> 
> The "zsoelim" doesn't matter for reproducing the problem;
>       /usr/bin/tbl l.7 | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc
> has the same issue.

Hi,

Although the line number is different (node.cc:2933), I can reproduce
this with current CVS. I've attached the file that causes the assertion
failure. The exact arguments to troff don't seem to matter particularly,
although it does need to be run through tbl first.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  address@hidden

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