[pdftex] infinite recursion in pdftex_fail

[Angus Lees]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote:
> On 2001-09-24 11:37:00 +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> > just looking at utils.c:
> > 
> > pdftex_fail calls tex_printf
> > 
> > tex_printf calls maketexstring
> > 
> > maketexstring calls check_buf (a macro)
> > 
> > check_buf calls pdftex_fail if the check fails
> > 
> > and so on..
> > 
> > i've even got a core dump to prove it ;) 
> 
> Interesting. How did you provoke this error? 
> I think I have a fix.

i included a largish (about 12 pages) pdf (using pdfpages) into an
already fairly complex ~100 page LaTeX document.

i had pool_size set to 125000. i increased it (to 500000) and the
pdflatex run worked fine. the log mentioned i had used ~130000.

i presume i had simply run out of "pool".

(pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.3.1) 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806)

-- 
 - Gus