Re: OS X: Segfault adding ligature

The steps seem fairly platform-generic, but I cannot reproduce the crash on
Linux. Could you try connecting a debugger to Fontforge before crashing it
and getting a stack trace?




On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Ambarish Sridharanarayanan <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I didn’t see any responses; could it be because my repro steps were on a
> Mac? Would a Linux repro help? Any other way I could help, short of
> debugging and providing a patch? :-)
>
> Thanks!
> Ambarish
>
> On 14 Jan, 2014, at 19:52, Ambarish Sridharanarayanan <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I’m running fontforge 20131122, libfontforge 20131122-ML on OS X
> Mavericks. I’m trying to add a ligature to an Indic font for the Grantha
> script. The target of any ligature I add (through Glyph Info) ends up being
> a .notdef in the table, If I then go to Font Info, Lookups, go into the
> sub-table, Edit Data and try to fix the Ligature Glyph Name, FontForge
> crashes when I hit ‘OK’, with a Segmentation Fault, with the following
> output:
> >
> > MakeTemporaryFile() fd:28
> template:/var/folders/_j/jr2f9sf110l_ylyy7mchm95h0000gp/T//fontforge-stemp-H83T9W
> > Failed to read a file. Bytes read:0 file size:0
> > /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/MacOS/FontForge: line 64:   699
> Segmentation fault: 11  $WRAPPER $bundle_bin/fontforge -new "$@"
> >
> > Here are repro steps:
> >
> > * Download file from the link below (you may need a modern browser + JS)
> > http://sdrv.ms/1fwqunc
> > * Go to Element → Font Info
> > * Go to Lookups
> > * Open the <1, 0> Required Ligatures table
> > * Select the only sub-table and click Edit Data
> > * Notice the 2 ligatures are both .notdef
> > * Try to fix up the Ligature glyph-names by editing the first notdef,
> typing in ‘uniE00C’
> > * Click OK
> > * CRASH!
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > Ambarish
> >
>
>
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