Bugs item #600, was opened at 2006-08-23 21:51 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=600&group_id=106 Category: None Group: v1.40.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Robert (schlcht) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: \pdfdraftmode: results in segfault + can be tricked Initial Comment: The following gives a segfault here (under cygwin): \pdfdraftmode=1 \immediate\pdfobj{x} %\pdfoutline goto name{x}{y} % with this, too \pdfcompresslevel=9 A \bye

From the terminal:

This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060822 (Web2C 7.5.5) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./bugs.tex [1{/cygdrive/c/Programme/TeXLive/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/ pdftex.map} 133 [main] pdftex 1780 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Error while dumping state (probably corrupted stack) Segmentation fault (core dumped) Also, the following will create a pdf file, although it shouldn't (or at least issue a warning about \pdfdraftmode being issued too late): \immediate\pdfobj{x} \pdfdraftmode=1 A \bye ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=600&group_id=106