Re: Texinfo 7.0.93 pretest available

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 17:26:51 +0100
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> I've changed xspara__print_escaped_spaces not to use malloc and free,
> although adding dTHX should be harmless.

Yes, I've seen that.  Applying that change doesn't prevent the
crashes.

> Try going into the doc directory and replicating the command to build
> the manual:
> 
> TEXINFO_DEV_SOURCE=1  top_srcdir=".."  top_builddir=".." /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl 
> ../tp/texi2any -c INFO_SPECIAL_CHARS_WARNING=0  -I . -o texinfo.info  
> texinfo.texi
> 
> and see if the problem replicates.

Crashes.

> More straightforwardly, try
> 
> /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any.pl texinfo.texi

Also crashes.

> (which will output a harmless warning about a node name).
> 
> Then you could try with debugging output:
> 
> /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any.pl texinfo.texi -c DEBUG=1
> 
> or for a smaller file,
> 
> /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any.pl info-stnd.texi -c DEBUG=1
> 
> to get an idea of where the crash is occurring.

The output of the last command is:

  $ /d/usr/Perl/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any.pl info-stnd.texi -c DEBUG=1
  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RESETTING THE PARSER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  NEW LINE @c We must \input texinfo.tex instead of texinfo, otherwise make
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @c
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C2](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @c distcheck in the Texinfo distribution fails, because the texinfo 
Info
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @c
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C3](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @c file is made first, and texi2dvi must include . first in the path.
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @c
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C4](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @comment %**start of header
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @comment
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C5](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @setfilename info-stnd.info
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @setfilename
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C6](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  ABORT EMPTY in (line_arg)[C1](p:1): internal_spaces_after_command; add || to 
| |
  NEW TEXT (merge): info-stnd|||
  MERGED TEXT: .||| in [T: info-stnd] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  MERGED TEXT: info||| in [T: info-stnd.] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  END LINE (line_arg)[C1] <- @setfilename
  MERGED TEXT:
  ||| in [T: info-stnd.info] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  ISOLATE SPACE p (line_arg)[C1]; c [T: info-stnd.info\n]
  MISC END setfilename
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @include version-stnd.texi
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @include
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C7](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  ABORT EMPTY in (line_arg)[C1](p:1): internal_spaces_after_command; add || to 
| |
  NEW TEXT (merge): version-stnd|||
  MERGED TEXT: .||| in [T: version-stnd] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  MERGED TEXT: texi||| in [T: version-stnd.] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  END LINE (line_arg)[C1] <- @include
  MERGED TEXT:
  ||| in [T: version-stnd.texi] last of (line_arg)[C1]
  ISOLATE SPACE p (line_arg)[C1]; c [T: version-stnd.texi\n]
  MISC END include
  Included ./version-stnd.texi
  MARK include c: 1 p: 0 start no-add @setfilename[A1] (before_node_section)[C6]
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @set UPDATED 15 August 2023
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @set
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C7](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @set UPDATED-MONTH August 2023
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @set
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C8](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @set EDITION 7.0.93
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @set
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C9](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE
  NEW LINE @set VERSION 7.0.93
  BEGIN LINE
  COMMAND @set
  ABORT EMPTY in (before_node_section)[C10](p:1): empty_line; add || to ||
  GET_A_NEW_LINE

and then it crashes.

Does this help?