[tex-live] uninitialized line number in pdfTeX
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Sat Aug 13 07:11:24 CEST 2011
> The attached texinfo file produces this error message
> ./WarningProb.texi:-1162167622: Could not find image file [...]
>
> if processed with
> pdfetex --file-line-error WarningProb.texi
>
> The reported line number is 0xbabababa; for me this indicates an
> uninitialized (and consequently not set) line number.
>
> Unfortunately, I get ./WarningProb.texi:0: Could not find ...
> instead of the bogus value. Also on i386 GNU/Linux (specifically,
> CentOS 5.6), with the same pdf(e)tex and texinfo.tex. Sigh.
>
> Can you think of anything else in your environment that could be
> causing the difference? Some memory-testing environment variable or
> something? I tried running with MALLOC_CHECK_=2, to no avail.
Sorry for missing that. I can reproduce your result. Try
MALLOC_PERTURB_=69
MALLOC_CHECK_=3
to get what I see.
BTW, value 0 looks wrong for me also... With my test file, it should
be 30, shouldn't it?
Werner
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