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Article #1904Severe problems with Ghostscript 2.5 (core dumps)
From: Jos Vos
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 06:41
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 06:41
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Using Ghostscript 2.5 on my Bull DPX/2 UNIX system, I have two situations
where it dumps core:
(1) When using a printer driver it produces a memory fault, unless I
compile using -g: then it seems to work correctly (as usual ... :-().
The stack trace of the core is garbage. Note: I'm NOT using -O
optimization.
But because it works with -g, I have a workaround...
(2) Using original Adobe Type 1 fonts, a floating point exception
is generated when showing a string. This occurs both using .pfa
and .pfb font files, and with EVERY font I tried. It happens, at
the mnoment of the first "show" operation.
This is the stack trace:
*flatten_sample(ppath=0x3c6f90,n=17,x1=-57754,y1=14084301,x2=-36659,y2=14086144,x3=-27648,y3=14086144) [gxpcopy.c:306]
flatten_recur(ppath=0x3c6f90,x1=-57754,y1=14084301,x2=-36659,y2=14086144,x3=-27648,y3=14086144,scaled_flat=0) [gxpcopy.c:214]
gx_path_add_flattened_curve(ppath=0x3c6f90,x1=-57754,y1=14084301,x2=-36659,y2=14086144,x3=-27648,y3=14086144,flatness=0) [gxpcopy.c:64]
gs_op1_rrcurveto(ps=0x7ffff534,dx1=-598016,dy1=-73728,dx2=-53248,dy2=-417792,dx3=0,dy3=-180224) [gstype1.c:249]
gs_type1_interpret(pis=0x7ffff774,str=0,pindex=0x7ffffa44) [gstype1.c:368]
ztype1addpath(op=0x20da34) [zchar.c:321]
interp(pref=0x7ffffbfc) [interp.c:515]
gs_interpret(pref=0x7ffffbfc,user_errors=1,pexit_code=0x7ffffc18) [interp.c:181]
gs_run_string(str=0x29ff14,user_errors=1,pexit_code=0x7ffffc18) [gsmain.c:178]
run_string(str=0x29ff14) [gs.c:406]
runarg(argp=0x7ffffc60,pre=0x201a0a,post=0x201a08,nstrs=0) [gs.c:401]
argproc(arg=0x7ffffd5b) [gs.c:375]
main() [gs.c:191]
This is the code around line 306 in gxpcopy.c:
300 /* Flatten a segment of the path by repeated sampling. */
301 /* n is the number of points to sample, including the endpoints; */
302 /* we require n >= 3. */
303 private int
304 flatten_sample(gx_path *ppath, int n,
305 fixed x1, fixed y1, fixed x2, fixed y2, fixed x3, fixed y3)
> 306 { const fixed
307 x0 = ppath->position.x,
308 y0 = ppath->position.y;
309 /* We spell out some multiplies by 3, */
310 /* for the benefit of compilers that don't optimize this. */
311 const fixed
312 x01 = x1 - x0,
313 cx = (x01 << 1) + x01, /* 3*(x1-x0) */
314 x12 = x2 - x1,
315 bx = (x12 << 1) + x12 - cx, /* 3*(x2-2*x1+x0) */
316 ax = x3 - bx - cx - x0; /* x3-3*x2+3*x1-x0 */
Anyone having a solution for one of these problems?
--
-- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
-- Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!nlbull!jos From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Severe problems with Ghostscript 2.5 (core dumps) Message-ID: <1432@nlbull.bull.nl> Date: 9 Sep 92 06:41:09 GMT Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lines: 54