Bug#264394: tetex-bin: e-TeX is broken on registers > 255

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Hilmar Preusse writes:

> I was afraid of this. Thanks for clarification. Is this bug that
> serious, that we have to assume e-TeX to be useless and to use better
> Knuth TeX instead?

This has been in e-TeX for a _long_ time.  I believe the idiom needed
to trigger to be rarely used (and only e-TeX-specific code can use it
at all).

> So can we assume, that you forward the problem to the e-TeX team?

Yes.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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