On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:49:48PM -0700, Kip Warner wrote: > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 06:46 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > TeX has it’s problem with certain errors, accept it. > > It is not a problem with the program raising an error, it was how it > went about doing it. It should not have to take down the entire > operating system to indicate to the user that there was a non-intuitive > syntactical error in typesetting.
Older TeX engines had hard memory limit, so in case of such "syntactical" errors the engine would consume all its allocated memory and die (with a misleading error message), LuaTeX dynamically allocates memory (for good reasons) so it won't stop before consuming all your available memory, its the responsibility of an operating system to prevent such a faulty application from taking the whole system down. Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
