[tex-live] Re: [tex-implementors] Re: bug in etex

[Hans Hagen]

Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> On 13 Jul 2004, at 3:29 pm, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>
>> I have just reproduced the SIGSEGV with
>>     "This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)"
>> (yes we still use this somewhat oldish version).
>>
>
> This suggests that my note re XeTeX (based on 3.14159-2.1) *not* 
> failing on this test is probably irrelevant; most likely something 
> else is masking the problem in that case.

normally the bug goes unnoticed (that is, the registers end up empty) but taco figured out a way to trigger the underlying (mem) problem; 

Hans 


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