Re: [ft-devel] Dynamic limits for TrueType bytecode execution

[Werner LEMBERG]

> a problematic font was encountered by reporter of this downstream bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1456585.
> 
> The font there is Padauk-Bold.ttf (version 3.002 (it works with current
> upstream)). It has exc->cvtSize == 35 so the exc->loopcall_counter_max
> == 350 but exc->loopcall_counter == 523.
> 
> Do you consider this a problem of the font (which is fixed in
> current master of the font - but it doesn't seem that they targeted
> this issue specifically) or something because of which the limits
> should be adjusted?

Sigh, the culprit is (again) a buggy version of ttfautohint.  Given
that I'm the author, I *have* to fix this in FreeType :-)

A patch is now in git.  Thanks for the report!


    Werner