Re: [ft-devel] Freetype-devel Digest, Vol 145, Issue 6

[Hin-Tak Leung]

I did wonder about that - the limit was dropped from 10000 instructions down to 
a heuristic value, than enlarged again. It is possible the heuristic value is 
still too low? Is it truly recursing or just current limit too low? The initial 
poster did not mention testing with freetype 2.6.X ( I think the change was 
introduced in the late 2.6.X)
 
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 Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:21:21 +0100 (CET)
 From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
 To: address@hidden
 Cc: address@hidden
 Subject: Re: [ft-devel] All glyphs in these two fonts are
 unloadable
     with FT 2.7.1
 
 
 > I found that FreeType 2.7.1 is unable to load all the
 glyphs in
 > these two fonts.
 
 This is not correct.  FreeType *can* load the two
 fonts, however, you
 have to disable hinting since ...
 
 > They all return the same error code: 0x8B which
 indicates the
 > "execution context too long" Error.
 
 ... the bytecode of both fonts is broken, containing endless
 loops.
 
 > FontForge is able to view both the two fonts.
 
 Yes, FontForge loads fonts without applying hints.
 
 
     Werner