Re: runaway recursion in makeinfo

[David Bacon]

Wow, well done, reducing it to such a nice tidy little test case!

I'm sure you've also realized by now that I lied about Ubuntu (Ubuntu 22.10 currently comes with only version 6.8; I was actually running the 7.0 version that I got directly from the GNU) -- but in fact the same bug afflicts 6.8 as well.

Many thanks for your prompt and perspicacious attention!

   dB

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 2:47 AM Patrice Dumas <pertusus@free.fr> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 11:30:08AM -0800, David Bacon wrote:
> The following command on the attached .texi file never terminates, but
> spins while consuming more and more memory until it is killed:
>
> $ makeinfo --html --no-split --no-headers setl-lib.texi

Thanks for the report.

I'll have a look tonight.

Here is a small reproducer (with --html), maybe it could be even smaller
with the macro pre-expansion, but I'll look at it later:

@alias rfe = ref

@macro refglyph {node}
@rfe{\node\}
@end macro

@node sharp
@section @refglyph{sharp} tuple

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Pat