haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) (12/02/88)
Someone was getting segmentation fault when using ispell, so I looked
at their text, and by dividing it in half repeatedly, I was able
to narrow the segmentation fault to:
x's
The actual sentence was:
Reuleaux's Triangle and Curves of Constant Width
Apparently if you have this sequence of letters in your file (but only
if they are at the end of the very first word on a line!?), ispell
quits with a segmentation fault message. Actually a file containing
exactly these three characters and nothing else crashes ispell
consistently.
The problem was originally reported on a VAX, but I've been doing the
test on the Sun.
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