[bug #62812] [me] doesn't initialize all section number registers

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
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                 Summary: [me] doesn't initialize all section number registers
                 Project: GNU troff
               Submitter: gbranden
               Submitted: Mon 25 Jul 2022 06:40:17 PM UTC
                Category: Macro me
                Severity: 2 - Minor
              Item Group: Warning/Suspicious behaviour
                  Status: In Progress
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: gbranden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Mon 25 Jul 2022 06:40:17 PM UTC By: G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Problem affects groff 1.22.4.  Observed in a Reddit thread
<https://old.reddit.com/r/groff/comments/w22w5w/i_took_the_latextypeset_issue_2_of_the_linux_zine/>.


$ cat EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me 
.sh 6 "The Joy of Commodore 64"
$ nroff -ww -me EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me | cat -s
troff: EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me:1: warning: number register '$1' not defined
troff: EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me:1: warning: number register '$2' not defined
troff: EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me:1: warning: number register '$3' not defined
troff: EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me:1: warning: number register '$4' not defined
troff: EXPERIMENTS/sh-problem.me:1: warning: number register '$5' not defined

1.1.1.1.1.1.  The Joy of Commodore 64









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