[luatex] luatex segfault on mips64el hardware

[Taco Hoekwater]

On 12/26/2011 04:12 AM, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I am witnessing a segfault in luatex when it attempts to compile my book
> on mips64el hardware. Compiling a trivial hello world, however, is fine.
> I don't think it is an endian issue since this hardware is little endian
> which.
>
> I am using luatex beta 0.71.0-2011122518 (rev 4358) and I have attached
> the output of its execution with a hopefully useful stacktrace.
>

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