[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Seg fault from xml2brl

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 06:15:41 -0500

Please send your sample input file to me. I'll have a look at the 
problem with gdb. It may not be hard to fix.

I'm glad y9ou are looking at moving to liblouisutdml. It has a lot of 
promise for the future.

John B.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:41:53AM -0700, John  Brugge wrote:
> I'm getting a segmentation fault from xml2brl that seems to be related to the 
> size of XML "list" elements in the source input, but that's just the best I 
> can deduce by paring down an input file that causes the problems.
> 
> We are running liblouis/liblouisxml 2.2.0, and I'm wondering if there are any 
> flags or settings to get more debug diagnostics to pinpoint the problem. We 
> have it in our plans to migrate to liblouisutdml, and it appears that this 
> problem is resolved there, so if this is something that doesn't seem worth 
> the effort it would take to diagnose in liblouisxml, just let me know. The 
> liblouisutdml move hasn't been on our immediate radar, since liblouisxml has 
> been working for what we need, but if that's the best course of action then 
> so be it.
> 
> I have a sample XML input that can reproduce this if needed.
> 
> Thanks for any tips,
> John Brugge

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