Re: etex and pdftex have diverging memory constraints?
Herbert Voss <[email protected]>
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Am 27.08.25 um 16:07 schrieb jfbu via tex-live:
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> It is unavoidable that a crash occurs with etex/pdftex if the 2492679 is replaced by some large enough number, so if you have time to waste on this you can try to set it to a higher value.
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> I am surprised the upper limit at my locale is lower than what you and Herbert experiment... and Herbert confirmed being with TL default memory settings like myself.
with 2492700 it fails:
voss>mist:$ pdfetex xyz.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.28 (TeX Live 2025)
(preloaded format=pdfetex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./xyz.tex
(/usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xint/xintkernel.sty)
Runaway argument?
{FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF\ETC.
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=5000000].
\x ...FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF\ETC.
l.5 \expandafter\xintLength\expandafter{\x
}
! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on xyz.log.
Herbert