[bug-gs] pcl6 always dumps core in gstype42.c (Windows, Cygwin)

[Boemker, Tim]

On several documents, pcl6 dumps core:

$ gdb pcl6
GNU gdb 2003-09-20-cvs (cygwin-special)
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) run accurate.pcl
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/pcl6.exe accurate.pcl

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
append_simple (gdata=0xa4a4dfe "\001ÿA", sbw=0x2292b0, pmat=0xa04c458,
    ppath=0xa4e0320, ppts=0x0, pfont=0xa4796a8, subglyph=0)
    at ../gs/src/gstype42.c:803
803                 byte flags = *pf++;


$ gdb pcl6
GNU gdb 2003-09-20-cvs (cygwin-special)
Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-cygwin"...
(gdb) run amsouth.pcl
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/pcl6.exe amsouth.pcl

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00417ce5 in gs_type42_default_get_metrics (pfont=0xa493c18,
glyph_index=37,
    wmode=0, sbw=0x229f60) at ../gs/src/gstype42.c:684
684         if (glyph_data.bits.size != 0 && S16(glyph_data.bits.data) ==
-1) {


There were no warnings when gstype42.c was compiled:

gcc  -g -O -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
-I./obj -
I../gs/src  -o ./obj/gstype42.o -c ../gs/src/gstype42.c

What might be causing this error?

Thanks.