[pdftex] BUG pdftex-1.40.11 TeXLive 2010 (win32)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Akira Kakuto wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
>> I encountered a bug in current pdftex-1.40.11 of TeXLive 2010
>> on the Win32 platform.
>
> Confirmed. I don't yet understand why.

Most likely this is to do with line endings, and something has changed 
the binmode default for opening files.  (I've seen this before with 
Win32 programs compiled with gcc: the 'something' in that case was 
loading another DLL, in that case built with gfortran.)

>
> Thanks,
> Akira
>
> examples
> ------------------
> (2a) \pdfmdfivesum file {tiger.pdf}\vskip 1ex % correct
> \pdfximage {tiger.pdf}
> (2b) \pdfmdfivesum file {tiger.pdf}           % wrong
> \bye
>
>
> (2a) \pdfmdfivesum file {tiger.pdf}\vskip 1ex % correct
> \immediate\pdfximage {tiger.pdf}
> (2c) \pdfmdfivesum file {tiger.pdf}           % correct
> \bye
>

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