[XeTeX] Segmentation fault with xdvipdfmx

[Jonathan Kew]

On 10 Jul 2006, at 8:58 am, Ralf Stubner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using the 'macosx' branch of xdvipdfmx (revision 54) and get a
> segmentation fault from xdvipdfmx when processing the following file:
>
> \font\x="Palatino Linotype:+smcp"
> \x abc
> \bye
>
> (Palatino Linotype as shipped with WinXP).

Thanks for the report; confirmed as a bug, and should be fixed in  
rev. 56, just checked in. Triggered by the font having a format 3  
'post' table (no glyph names).

(Apparently Windows is more tolerant of dereferencing a NULL pointer,  
at least sometimes...)

JK