Sam TH wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:05:27AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> 
>> I get a segfault when I try to open test/wp/footer.abw. This happens
>> under Windows and Linux.
>> 
>> fl_BlockLayout::getNewLine() is trying to get a Container from a
>> HdrFtrSectionLayout. The relevant functions in fl_HdrFtrSectionLayout
>> simply assert and return NULL whenever they are called. The code doesn't
>> check for this, and tries to use the NULL pointer.
>> 
>> I tried to fix it, but don't know the code well enough (yet). I filed
>> bug #1053: http://www.abisource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1053
>> 
> 
> Some more info on this.  It turns out that the problem stems from having 
> text in the footer.  Multiple fields, or single fields are not a problem, 
> but any text causes that segfault.  This happens on both headers and 
> footers, and is irrespective of other document content.  In fact, images
> in headers/footers works, as long as there is no text.  
> 
> The next step is figuring out when this broke.  It appears to have broken
> more than one week ago, but I'll let people know what I find out.  
> 
> This also gives me an idea for a regression test suite.  `yes | abiword` 
> must not crash opening any of the documents in test/wp/.  I'll set up 
> the nightly build script to do this eventually.  
> 
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I don't know if this goes along with the same thing... but I tried to 
open Program.doc (from http://www.greenparty.org/Program.doc ) but all I 
got was question marks.  Even though kword gave me errors, I could still 
view the document.

Sorry... I'm a newbie as far as Abi goes, so I don't know if this was 
already covered, if so, please excuse me.

Jonathan




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