With the latest head:
G N U P L O T
Version 5.3 patchlevel 0 last modified 2018-04-25
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Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others
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Terminal type is now 'qt'
Options are '0 font "Sans,9"'
gnuplot> set terminal svg enhanced size 576,432 dynamic fsize 8 background rgb "#ffffff"
Terminal type is now 'svg'
^
unrecognized terminal option
gnuplot> set out "t1.svg"
gnuplot> plot sin(x)
Segmentation fault
When all options are proper, gnuplot does not crash.
Curious case of one bug fix revealing a separate bug that had been masked.
Fixed now.
I was just looking at this. My guess would be that
appears after the int_error() rather than before the options loop. Everything else after the options loop is just output, not input.
I'm still getting this error on a fresh clone of this repo. Shell is showing Version 5.3 patchlevel 0, last modified 2019-03-07.
Running on Xubuntu 18.10.