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bug #52525: gropdf: Uninitialized variable "$fld"

Submitter:  Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Submitted:  Mon 27 Nov 2017 01:14:13 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Driver gropdf Severity:  2 - Minor
Item Group:  Incorrect behaviour Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  deri
Open/Closed:  Closed Planned Release:  1.22.4
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Mon 23 Apr 2018 01:21:06 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Thanks, Deri!

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Mon 23 Apr 2018 01:07:54 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Yes it was fixed in that commit.

Deri James <deri>
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Mon 23 Apr 2018 12:32:00 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Hi Deri,

This was fixed as part of your commit f2a92911c552c3995c010f8beb9b89de3612e95a on 1 March, right?

I can't repro the issue in git HEAD using Bjarni's test file, but the thing seems to be a bit slippery and whitespace-dependent as you noted.


$ cat > test.trf
.pl 10
.ie t \{\
.  tm this is the t-block
.\}
.el \{\
. tm this is the n-block
.\}
$ ./build/test-groff -Tpdf ./test.trf > /dev/null
this is the t-block
$


G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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Sat 17 Feb 2018 11:08:23 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Found it (with your help). The reason I could not replicate is because my test.trf had an extra blank line on the end, if I remove the line then I get the warning. Without the blank line there is actually no output from groff at all passed to gropdf, it receives an empty file. You can see this if you run with the -Z flag - no output is given. So this warning occurs if gropdf is passed an empty file.

To fix this I have added:-

exit 0 if $lct==0;

At line 331. This seems to fix the problem. Of course, an empty pdf file is produced, which is invalid, but if you include one blank line to the troff input you get a valid pdf with a single blank page. The distinction seems defensible, no input equals no output. In fact this is exactly what grops does.

I have promised Peter Schaffter to try to commit changes for his slides addition to Mom by next Friday, so this fix will be included in that.

Cheers

Deri


Deri James <deri>
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Sat 17 Feb 2018 04:17:50 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Hi Deri,

that is strange.  I can reproduce the problem even with the installed groff:

schwarze@isnote $ groff --version
GNU groff version 1.22.3.rc1
[...]

schwarze@isnote $ groff -Tpdf test.trf > test.pdf
this is the t-block
Use of uninitialized value $fld in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/gropdf line 2012.
Use of uninitialized value $fld in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/local/bin/gropdf line 2012.

schwarze@isnote $ xpdf test.pdf
Syntax Warning: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway)
Syntax Error: Couldn't read xref table
Syntax Warning: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
Syntax Error: Top-level pages reference is wrong type (null)
Syntax Error: Couldn't read page catalog

schwarze@isnote $ cat test.pdf
1 0 obj
endobj
1 0 obj << /CreationDate (D:20180217045905+01'00')
/Creator (groff version 1.22.3.rc1)
/ModDate (D:20180217045905+01'00')
/Producer (gropdf version 1.22.3.rc1)

>>

endobj
2 0 obj
endobj
xref

  1. 2

0000000000 65535 f
0000000016 00000 n
0000000186 00000 n
trailer
<<
/Info 1 0 R
/Root 1 0 R
/Size 2

>>

startxref
202
%%EOF

The error message comes from Perl.  Have you somehow globally disabled warnings in your Perl interpreter (admittedly, i wouldn't know how to do that)?

The line in question is
  $$pmsg.="$fld$term";
in PutField().

For debugging, i just added this statement right before that line:
  warn "|$pmsg|$fld|$term|$typ|" unless defined $fld;
Which resulted in this output:

|SCALAR(0xfa4d4761910)|1 0 obj ||
|| at /usr/local/bin/gropdf line 2012.

|SCALAR(0xfa4d4761910)|2 0 obj ||
|| at /usr/local/bin/gropdf line 2012.

So apparently, the following gets called:
  PutField(&"1 0 obj ", undef, false);
  PutField(&"2 0 obj ", undef, false);

And indeed, the "1 0 obj endobj" in the output looks strange to me.

Any idea what to do to help you reproduce?

Ingo Schwarze <schwarze>
Group Member
Sat 17 Feb 2018 02:08:04 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Afraid I can't duplicate this in 1.22.3.rc1.


[derij@pip build (master)]$ ./test-groff -Tpdf ~/gropdf/testing/bug-52525/test.trf >/dev/null
this is the t-block
[derij@pip build (master)]$ ./test-groff -Tpdf ~/gropdf/testing/bug-52525/test.trf -P-v
this is the t-block
GNU gropdf (groff) version 1.22.3.rc1
[derij@pip build (master)]$ cat ~/gropdf/testing/bug-52525/test.trf
.pl 10
.ie t \{\
.  tm this is the t-block
.\}
.el \{\
. tm this is the n-block
.\}


Can I close this?

Deri James <deri>
Group Member
Mon 27 Nov 2017 01:14:13 AM UTC, original submission:  



  Input:

.pl 10
.ie t \{\
.  tm this is the t-block
.\}
.el \{\
. tm this is the n-block
.\}

command:

  test-groff -Tpdf <file> > /dev/null


  Output:

this is the t-block
Use of uninitialized value $fld in concatenation (.) or string at /home/bg/git/groff/gropdf line 2012.
Use of uninitialized value $fld in concatenation (.) or string at /home/bg/git/groff/gropdf line 2012.


Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2018-04-23 gbranden StatusConfirmed Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.22.4
    2018-02-17 schwarze CategoryNone Driver gropdf
        Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        StatusNone Confirmed
        Assigned toNone deri

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