Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> That error indeed comes from mplib, but from the overflow test in
>> realloc(), not the memory array "overflow" function. You get this
>> error when you attempt to allocate more than 2^31 bytes. Since that
>> clearly should not happen, there is a bug somewhere in MPlib. But
>> I'll need your source to dig it out. (likely you do something we
>> have never tested yet).
>>
>
> Just for the record: Taco found and squished this bug; the new luatex
> trunk doesn't have it anymore. Thanks for the swift action!
the next mkiv upload will have a bit better reporter for such cases
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