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

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Olaf Weber wrote:

> That makes for this change:
>
> @x l.2737
>    else q:=sa_ptr(cur_ptr)
> @y
>    else q:=sa_ptr(cur_chr)
> @z
>
>> Could you test this? Right now I have some difficulties recompiling etex.
>
> It prevents the crash.  I'm not sure how to check for correctness
> beyond that point.

You could run this

   \toksdef\whatevertoks = 266
   \toksdef\extratoks = 267
   \whatevertoks={junk}
   \everypar{\extratoks=\whatevertoks}
   \immediate\write16{t={\the\toks265}}
   \showthe\extratoks  % should be empty
   some paragraph
   \showthe\extratoks  % should be "junk"
   \par
   \bye

Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>