10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
2:05 p.m.
Taco Hoekwater
David Kastrup wrote:
Does anybody know offhand whether I can expect bad effects? After
I vaguely recall having problems when I tried to raise the value, but I can't remember what was wrong, and I am not even sure anymore if I crossed the 16-bit boundary, sorry.
The value 262143 is probably only a legacy of 36-bit words on the PDP-10, but ...
I did some sort of cursory code review of pdftex.web and found nothing obvious that would go wrong. I am still somewhat queasy about this. Perhaps Hans has some anecdotal evidence? I could imagine that the Pragma workflow will tend to favor PDFTeX compilations with large limits. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum