[luatex] assertion error

[David Carlisle]

On 11 May 2016 at 18:26, Ulrike Fischer <luatex at nililand.de> wrote:
> With this latex document
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \pdfextension mapline{=cmr10 DejaVuSans "T1Encoding ReEncodeFont"
> <[tex256.enc <DejaVuSans.ttf}
> \begin{document}
> blub
> \end{document}
>
> I get on windows 7 with luatex (from tl 2016 pretest)
> an error from the
>
> "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library"
>
> The error message says:
>
> Assertion failed!
> Program: D:\texlive\2016\bin\win32\luatex.exe
> File: utils/avl.c
> Line: 744
>
> Expression tree !=NULL
>
> With luatex from TL 2015 (and \pdfmapline) there is no problem.
>
> I don't really want to use a font like this. I ran into the error
> while comparing the output of some fonts. The real error came from
> arial.ttf, I replaced it by dejavusans as this is part of texlive.
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>

essentially the same in a cygwin build:

assertion "tree != NULL" failed: file
"../../../texk/web2c/luatexdir/utils/avl.c", line 744, function:
avl_destroy
Aborted (core dumped)

David