[NTG-pdftex] [ pdftex-Bugs-555 ] pdfLaTeX coredumps on OpenBSD

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Bugs item #555, was opened at 2006-05-20 16:16
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Category: hz
Group: v1.30.0
Status: Open
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dag Leine (dag)
Assigned to: Taco Hoekwater (taco)
Summary: pdfLaTeX coredumps on OpenBSD

Initial Comment:
I've found, that pdfLaTeX coredumps on OpenBSD if I use
amsmath and microtype in some math environments. Here
is a minimal latex document for showing the bug:

> cat minidump.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{microtype}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
  \begin{align}
    x
  \end{align}
\end{document}
% end of minidump.tex

> pdflatex minidump
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
entering extended mode
(./minidump.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american,
french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech,
danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian,
latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak,
slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX
document class
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.sty
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/microtype.cfg))
(./minidump.aux)
(/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/microtype/mt-cmr.cfg)Segmentation
fault (core dumped) 


A quick look with gdb shows, that it hangs in line 4396
 of pdfetex2.c:
  c = getrpcode ( f , mem [p ].hh.b1 ) ;

Here p=999996 and f=-4096

Since f seems to be a table index to pdffontrbase a
negative value does not make sense to my mind.

I've tryed the same on a LINUX machine. There pdfLaTeX
does not crash, but p and f have the same values as
under OpenBSD.

As the most bad work around after taking *Word I've
added a line of code which leaves the routine if f
becomes negative. This seems to work in the sense, that
there isn't any more a core dump.

regards
  Dag

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>Comment By: Taco Hoekwater (taco)
Date: 2006-07-25 23:06

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=1608

ok, will check tomorrow

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Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Date: 2006-07-25 21:30

Message:
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user_id=421

This still happens with the latest beta (I've got an OpenBSD
machine now myself):
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c048f03 in zcharpw (p=999996, side=1 '\001') at
pdftex2.c:3191
3191        c = getrpcode ( f , mem [p ].hh.b1 ) ;
(gdb) bt
#0  0x1c048f03 in zcharpw (p=999996, side=1 '\001') at
pdftex2.c:3191
#1  0x1c053d53 in zpostlinebreak (d=1) at pdftex2.c:7715
#2  0x1c007659 in zlinebreak (d=1) at pdftexini.c:2136
#3  0x1c05bb11 in initmath () at pdftex3.c:141
#4  0x1c065091 in maincontrol () at pdftex3.c:4582
#5  0x1c0130a2 in mainbody () at pdftexini.c:5647
#6  0x1c069d9e in main (ac=2, av=0xcfbd239c) at
pdftexextra.c:340
(gdb) l pdftex2.c:3191
3186        c = getlpcode ( f , mem [p ].hh.b1 ) ;
3187        lastleftmostchar = p ;
3188      } 
3189      else {
3190          
3191        c = getrpcode ( f , mem [p ].hh.b1 ) ;
3192        lastrightmostchar = p ;
3193      } 
3194      if ( c == 0 ) 
3195      return Result ;
(gdb) p f
$1 = -4096
(gdb) p p    
$2 = 999996
(gdb) p mem[p].hh   
$3 = {v = {LH = -268435455, RH = 675}, u = {B1 = 1, B0 = -4096}}


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