Re: etex and pdftex have diverging memory constraints?

Herbert Voss <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Am 27.08.25 um 16:07 schrieb jfbu via tex-live:
>
> 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.
>
> 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
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