>This is more of a TUG-level theoretical concern, I've never seen a
>non-contrived example (and it is easy to avoid)

The install manual in the boot-floppies has shown bi-stable (i.e.,
alternating) behavior, and I have no idea why.

> but I might suggest
>that in practice, just make sure that any clever iterative hack will
>*give up* after some small number of iterations to let a human tweak
>it (and save the non-contrived example for submission to one of the
>TeX journals :-)

Yes, my makefile hack gives up after a while -- rather than
forkbombing the box!

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