[tex-live] [OS X TeX] Re: Plea/Request: Bibtex with increased BUF_SIZE]]

[Gerben Wierda]

>From Karl Berry:

Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:09:20 -0400
From: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
To: "Karl Berry" <karl at freefriends.org>
Subject: Re: [tex-live] [OS X TeX] Re: Plea/Request: Bibtex with increased
	BUF_SIZE

>    >>> The bibtex BUF_SIZE constant, set at compile time, controls the
>    >>> maximum size of strings.
>
>Lee -- In web2c, most of the bibtex arrays are dynamically grown as
>necessary; the 5000 BUF_SIZE is the initial size, not that hardcoded
>maximum (in contrast to the original code).  It would seem your big
>entries have found something that is still hardwired, or something else
>is going wrong.  Can you please send the aux and bib files that cause
>the problem so we can try to reproduce?
>
>    Ladies and gents on texlive: what needs to be changed here and does
>    anything need to be changed at all or is it a matter of config values

>    at runtime after all?
>
>Gerben -- I believe this change in texk/web2c/bibtex.ch is all that's
>needed to test the larger version:
>
>--- bibtex.ch	(revision 2077)
>+++ bibtex.ch	(working copy)
>@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
> @x [still 14]
> @!buf_size=1000; {maximum number of characters in an input line (or
string)}
> @y
>-@!BUF_SIZE=5000; {initial maximum number of characters in an input line
>+@!BUF_SIZE=20000; {initial maximum number of characters in an input line
>                                                                 (or
string)}
> @z
>
>
>I've committed it to TL, for the hell of it.
>
>k
>



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