Follow-up Comment #4, bug #56500 (group groff): [comment #3 comment #3:] > I don't understand why DWB/Heirloom _troff_ fails to produce > _any_ output before dying horribly.
Don't know for sure, but it appears to have nothing to do with traps.
$ cat ab
Output.
.br
.ab Die.
$ groff -a ab
<beginning of page>
Output.
Die.
$ heirloom-troff -a ab
Die.
My hypothesis is that the other roffs are less stringent about flushing stdout
upon seeing an .ab. You can even see that in groff:
$ fgrep -v .br ab | groff -a
<beginning of page>
Die.
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