I don't know. The ttf2afm that was distributed with my redhat 7.3 linux certainly did crash. When I downloaded the source from pdftex area of ctan and built it (with debug) the resultant program did not crash.
Therefore I believe this is a bug in ttf2afm and that bug has been fixed. The afm files produced by ttf2afm don't conform to Adobe's specifications. More.
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