[tex-live] xdvipdfm seg faults when using some TTF fonts (Was xelatex on OpenBSD sparc64 - Bus Error)

[Edd Barrett]

Hi,

I thought we should change the title of the thread in order to make it
easily searched for in the future. For those who were not following,
the conversation starts here:
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2007-June/014116.html

Anyway, here is gdb says about the whole ordeal:

$ gdb xdvipdfmx
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-openbsd4.1"...
(gdb) run -E test.xdv
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/xdvipdfmx -E test.xdv
test.xdv -> test.pdf
[1
** NOTICE: This document contains an embedded font with licensing
restrictions **
]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x1c04dbc6 in create_ToUnicode_cmap4 (map=0x89d0c6a0,
cmap_name=0x82acd8c0 "/home/edd/.fonts/SQUATT__.TTF,000-UTF16",
cmap_add=0x0,
    used_glyphs=0x82c5c000 "\200", post=0x82acdf80)
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/tt_cmap.c:956
956             gid = (map->glyphIndexArray[j+d] +
(gdb) bt
#0  0x1c04dbc6 in create_ToUnicode_cmap4 (map=0x89d0c6a0,
cmap_name=0x82acd8c0 "/home/edd/.fonts/SQUATT__.TTF,000-UTF16",
    cmap_add=0x0, used_glyphs=0x82c5c000 "\200", post=0x82acdf80)
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/tt_cmap.c:956
#1  0x1c04e06e in otf_create_ToUnicode_stream (font_name=0x868b28c0
"\004", ttc_index=0, face=0x83ae2000,
    used_glyphs=0x82c5c000 "\200")
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/tt_cmap.c:1145
#2  0x1c0560ea in add_ToUnicode (font=0x88da5800)
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/type0.c:209
#3  0x1c0567bc in Type0Font_cache_close ()
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/type0.c:549
#4  0x1c032fb0 in pdf_close_fonts ()
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/pdffont.c:533
#5  0x1c02d75e in pdf_close_document ()
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/pdfdoc.c:2108
#6  0x1c01ca90 in main (argc=0, argv=0x1)
    at /usr/ports/print/texlive/base/w-texlive_base-2007/texlive_base-2007/texk/xdvipdfmx/src/dvipdfmx.c:887

-- 
Best Regards

Edd

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