[luatex] luatex segfault on mips64el hardware

Kip Warner kip at thevertigo.com
Tue Jan 3 00:08:24 CET 2012


On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 11:52 +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Luatex is trying to hyphenate a word without any current language
> (lang = 0x3 in the stacktrace, it should be a pointer to a structure).
> 
> the language structure is (re)initialized from a partial bitfield,
> and it is possible that either endianness or byte (word) sizes are
> biting there. What I do not understand is why it happens while on
> page 81 (I would expect a problem like that to hit immediately).
> 
> Are you doing anything special on that page?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco

Hey Taco,

It sounds like the stacktrace was fortunately useful in trying to get to
the bottom of this. I just took a look at page 81 and I don't see
anything out of the ordinary there.

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Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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