[tlbuild] ttf2pk versus ttf2pk2

[Hin-Tak Leung]

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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 19:44 BST Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

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>On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 15:05 BST Werner LEMBERG wrote:
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>> [...] patched ttf2tfm (the freetype 1 version) fixed for
>> indeterminism and floating-point exception.
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>>Please post these patches!
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>>And *please* post an example of different TFMs, and a recipe how to
>>generate them.  We are going in circles otherwise.
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>I already posted one patch. Since the whole purpose of ttf2pk/ttf2tfm is to adding use of new fonts, a rewrite or bug-fixes without aiming for that, just for the sake of it, is meaningless. 
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>Besides, the two bug fixes turned out to be very obvious. and most familiarwith the code should be able to fix them in minutes.  That goes back to a point I kept repeating: why is a rewrite being done by somebody who does not use it? 
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>Here are the hints: how many places is unintialised memory being used? how many lines are between the branching of ttf vs 
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... ttc and the posted location of the gdb floating point exception? 

I counted only one place for the former, and about a screenful of lines in the latter.