Bug#178622: tetex-bin: Cannot change pool size to compile large files

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 27.01.03 rbm@math.mit.edu (rbm@math.mit.edu) wrote:

Hi,

http://bugs.debian.org/178622

> I am unable to get certain large files to compile under text version
> 1.0.2+20021025-7. The error message I receive is typically
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000].
> This is after increasing all relevant parameters. It seems that the
> 6000 here is some sort of intrinsic limit. Initially it is 1500 but
> when I increase what look like the relevant parameters
> param_size = 25000      % simultaneous macro parameters
> save_size = 25000       % for saving values outside current group
> stack_size = 25000      % simultaneous input sources
> it gets no larger than 6000.
> 
Is that still relevant or did the situation change? I could change
the stack size to 25000 and had at the end of the log file:

 32 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
 27i,4n,22p,209b,176s stack positions out of 25000i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s
                                             ^^^^^^
Output written on b.dvi (1 page, 264 bytes).

I guess, this is the relevant parameter, as it was initially 1500 and
changed after changing the stack_size. Unfortunately I don't a
document huge enough, to provoke that error message.

H.
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sigmentation fault