[pdftex] utils.c -- pool overflow when reporting pool overflow

[Angus Lees]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:33:55PM +0100, Olaf Weber wrote:
> When working with largish inputs, pdfTeX can run into a pool
> overflow.  Unfortunately, the pdftex_fail routine will itself try to
> allocate more strings in the pool, resulting in an endless loop.

i pointed this out in september
 (http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-September/009035.html)

martin schroeder had a patch, which i wasn't able to conclusively test.

-- 
 - Gus