On Monday 09 February 2009 17:47:56 brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 01:56:18PM +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote: > > groff version 1.19.2 > > I assume since you're using Apple Mail that you're using Mac OS X. > If so, is this the groff version that comes with Mac OS X? I seem > to remember that there was a problem with some versions of nroff > that were shipped by default.
Notwitstanding that there may be issues with some OS X builds of groff, as shipped by Apple, this one is completely reproducible with groff-1.19.2 on GNU/Linux. It looks like a bug in e.tmac, (in its page transition handling specifically); trivially converting the OP's test case to use s.tmac instead, produces output as expected. Just for the record, the OP's test case did *not* crash nroff; it simply caused nroff to give up on his input stream, reporting: troff: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded (probable infinite loop) That is a strong indicator of a probable infinitely recursive macro loop, induced by the specific set of conditions imposed by the OP's input sample. -- Regards, Keith.
