Hi everyone here,
here at Debian we got an interesting bug report, and I can
confirm it. tex binary (I know, it is the one form 2009)
crashes with seg fault on an empty file. That seems to have
been introduced with a new compiler or linker.
THe OP (big thanks) also proposes a patch.
I checked current TL development sources and the respective code is
still present in
enctex.ch
where at line 14 it is
mubyte_cswrite: array [0..127] of pointer;
and then in line 45
for i:=0 to 128 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
Is there an opinion on that?
Thanks a lot and all the best
Norbert
----- Forwarded message from Roderich Schupp <roderich.sch...@googlemail.com>
-----
> From: Roderich Schupp <roderich.sch...@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Bug#633011: /usr/bin/tex crashes on every *.tex file
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org>
>
> Package: texlive-binaries
> Version: 2009-8+b1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid
>
> To reproduce
>
> $ > foo.tex # but any other .tex file will do
> $ tex foo.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
> Segmentation fault
>
> This is due to an longstanding off-by-one error during initialization (even
> before loading a .fmt file):
>
> In Web (Pascal) source we have
>
> mubyte_cswrite: array [0..127] of pointer;
>
> and later this array is initialized with
>
> for i:=0 to 128 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
>
> Why hasn't this caused any problems before the latest (2009-8+b1) bin-NMU?
> My guess is that the GNU linker now produces another memory layout.
> Note that in the generated C source global variables like the above array are
> only declared "extern halfword mubytecswrite[128]", but are never defined.
> Hence their linkage is "common" and the linker is free to use any layout.
> For me mubytecswrite [128] is at the same address as extramembot (C variable
> names)
> and the later the has the value -268435455L (that's what's used for Pascal's
> "null").
> This is very unfortunate because extramembot is supposed to be positive and
> this leads to totally bogus pointer calculations resulting in a segfault.
>
> Suggested patch attached.
>
> Cheers, Roderich
>
> --- a/texk/web2c/tex.ch 2011-07-07 21:26:55.779344956 +0200
> +++ b/texk/web2c/tex.ch 2009-08-12 23:40:14.000000000 +0200
> @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
> {Initialize enc\TeX\ data.}
> for i:=0 to 255 do mubyte_read[i]:=null;
> for i:=0 to 255 do mubyte_write[i]:=0;
> -for i:=0 to 128 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
> +for i:=0 to 127 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
> mubyte_keep := 0; mubyte_start := false;
> write_noexpanding := false; cs_converting := false;
> special_printing := false; message_printing := false;
> --- a/texk/web2c/xetexdir/xetex.ch 2011-07-07 21:26:55.779344956 +0200
> +++ b/texk/web2c/xetexdir/xetex.ch 2011-07-07 21:26:55.779344956 +0200
> @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
> {Initialize enc\TeX\ data.}
> for i:=0 to 255 do mubyte_read[i]:=null;
> for i:=0 to 255 do mubyte_write[i]:=0;
> -for i:=0 to 128 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
> +for i:=0 to 127 do mubyte_cswrite[i]:=null;
> mubyte_keep := 0; mubyte_start := false;
> write_noexpanding := false; cs_converting := false;
> special_printing := false; message_printing := false;
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Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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