URL:
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Summary: [troff] does not diagnose trailing garbage in
register assignment
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: gbranden
Submitted: Wed 16 Aug 2023 03:45:10 AM UTC
Category: Core
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Wed 16 Aug 2023 03:45:10 AM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
$ groff -ww -rXX=3D </dev/null; echo foobar
foobar
$ echo '.nr XX 3D' | groff -ww -rXX=3D; echo foobar
foobar
That 'D' is not a scaling unit--it's just nonsense. We should complain, but
we don't.
Pointed out by Alex Colomar.
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