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[bug #63500] [man, mdoc] doesn't respect unset 'C' register when switchi


From: G. Branden Robinson
Subject: [bug #63500] [man, mdoc] doesn't respect unset 'C' register when switching packages
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 09:36:14 -0500 (EST)

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63500>

                 Summary: [man,mdoc] doesn't respect unset 'C' register when
switching packages
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Sat 10 Dec 2022 02:36:11 PM UTC
                Category: Macro - others/general
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect behaviour
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Follow-up Comments:


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Date: Sat 10 Dec 2022 02:36:11 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Observed on groff 1.22.4.


$ zcat /usr/share/man/man7/groff_man.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/groff_mdoc.7.gz
| nroff -t -rcR=0 -mandoc | grep -E '^(BSD|groff)'
groff 1.22.4                    27 January 2021                             
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mdoc warning: Empty input line #34
groff 1.22.4                    27 January 2021                            
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Problem is evident in both directions (an -> doc, above, and doc -< an).


$ zcat /usr/share/man/man7/groff_mdoc.7.gz /usr/share/man/man7/groff_man.7.gz
| nroff -t -rcR=0 -mandoc | grep -E '^(BSD|groff)' 
mdoc warning: Empty input line #34
BSD                            November 2, 2010                             
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groff 1.22.4                    27 January 2021                             
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[...]
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troff: <standard input>:4315: fatal error: input stack limit exceeded
(probable infinite loop)
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[...]


There were other problems, as can be seen, but they have since been resolved
in groff Git.  The one that remains observable is the failure to reset the
page number to 1 at a new document.







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