[bug #59608] sample_docs.mom: error: an argument has a 'p' unit attached

[G. Branden Robinson]

Update of bug #59608 (project groff):

                  Status:                    None => Works For Me           
             Assigned to:                    None => gbranden               

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Follow-up Comment #3:

The last non-cosmetic change to the mom macros was last June:


commit e73226432845a4694bcd7fdd10a373b24bb223ed
Author:     Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca>
AuthorDate: Tue Jun 9 14:04:32 2020 -0400
Commit:     Peter Schaffter <peter@schaffter.ca>
CommitDate: Tue Jun 9 14:04:32 2020 -0400

    Fix SMALLCAPS indenting slightly when called after PP.
    Update BUGS and version number in html docs.


It is _possible_ that the compiler change provoked this error, but it would be
really interesting to see that root-caused.  Any change to a C compiler with
an impact on macro parsing of *roff input would have a long reach that would,
I surmise, affect a lot of other software.

Bjarni has a certain notoriety for running his own private forks of tools, and
until we can get this problem reproduced by someone else, or by him using a
clean environment with a "make dist" archive, for instance, I don't think
there is much more that can be done about it.

I will add that the groff repository was quiescent between 19 November and 28
November 2020.

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