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

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2020-11-22T18:00:29+0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On 2020-11-22 at 13:10:15, John Gardner wrote:
> > 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.

Completely agreed.  If you encounter any more crashers in groff, please
report them.  We'll try to take a little less time to fix them. :-O

Regards,
Branden

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature