[Image-SIG] Python crashes on FreeType bindings -- replicable

[Adam Twardoch]

I'm getting many crashes when using the FreeType bindings in PIL with 
Python on Windows XP.

The crashes are consistant, on certain glyphs in certain fonts. At 
http://www.twardoch.com/tmp/crashPilFont.zip there is a small archive 
that contains a Python script, the binary libraries, some fonts of which 
one causes a crash (the italic), and an out.txt file that shows the 
output of the script (showing when it crashed).

I'm always getting the same crash:

AppName: python.exe     AppVer: 0.0.0.0     ModName: ntdll.dll
ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180     Offset: 00010f29

I tried this on two different Windows XP machines (one having a normal 
clean install of Windows, Python and PIL, the other being a developer's 
machine with many different things installed). I've tried Python 2.4.3 
with PIL 1.1.5, I've tried Python 2.5a2 with the pre-built PIL 1.1.6a0. 
I even tried the _imaging and _imagingft copies from Reportlab 
(http://www.reportlab.org/ftp/win32-dlls/2.4/). All the same.

But many other fonts work just fine.

In my code, I'm calling _imaging and _imagingft directly. That's just to 
nail the problem down. I've used the "official" way over PIL.Image and 
PIL.ImageFont, it's all the same.

It appears that the crash occurs at the line
im = _imaging.fill(self.mode, self.size, 0)
which is quite strange.

Do you know why this may be happening?

Adam Twardoch