Re: [Devel] Re: Apparent infinte loop in the TrueType BCI, may be 64-bit related.

[Detlef Würkner]

address@hidden (Werner LEMBERG) wrote:

> > When attempting to render 'A' from Verdana (version 2.35) at 1408px
> > (or larger), the "while (W >= 0x1004000L)" loop in Normalize doesn't
> > want to terminate -- i.e. after interrupting it in the debugger, W =
> > 1350222349939824672, Vx = 15396 and Vy = -1161990685.
> 
> I can't repeat that with my (32bit Linux) box, using the current CVS.
> 
> > This is with Freetype 2.1.9, as patched by Red Hat for Fedora Core 3

>From the ChangeLog:

2004-07-17  David Turner  <address@hidden>
[...]
        * src/truetype/ttinterp.c (Normalize): Fixed a bug that caused
        long and unnecessary delays while normalizing huge vectors.
[...]
2004-06-24  David Turner  <address@hidden>
[...]
        * Version 2.1.9 released.

Maybe its fixed in CVS and the Red Hat patch is too old?

Ciao, Detlef
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