Comment 8 for bug 1270464

must be a weird numerical round-off error problem. I updated to rev 12954 and still get the crash. I put a tracer on the affine transform, m, which is being used just before line 90 in the code. The transform is good for a while and then goes bad just before the crash. Output below:

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m =
A: 114 C: 0 E: 313
B: 0 D: 114 F: 425.362

m =
A: 114 C: 0 E: 313
B: 0 D: 114 F: 425.362

m =
A: nan C: 0 E: nan
B: 0 D: nan F: nan

m =
A: nan C: 0 E: nan
B: 0 D: nan F: nan

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Geom::ContinuityError'
  what(): lib2geom exception: Non-contiguous path (src/2geom/path.cpp:91)

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