Re: Bug#421437: groff: grops and grodvi crash on invalid input

[brian m. carlson]

On 2020-11-22 at 13:10:15, John Gardner wrote:
> >
> > He declared a groff-compatible ps device resolution of 72000 but didn't
> > scale his arguments.
> 
> 
> That's assuming he didn't patch devps/DESC locally with an arbitrary `
> sizescale` or `unitwidth` parameter (which may have been an attempt to make
> coordinates easier to visualise). But your point still stands.

I didn't patch any sort of files on the system.

The project I was working on is now pretty much dead, but I'm happy as
long as things don't crash.  The goal in filing the bug wasn't to get
groff to accept this (since obviously it was invalid), but more on the
principle that software shouldn't segfault even in the face of invalid
input.
-- 
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US

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