On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 21:39 +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
> When  TeX says
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [token memory size=<...>]
> it is its graceful way to exit from  an irreversible situation.
> It can be caused by luatex or ConTeXt mkiv
> but it's *not* a segmentation fault, as you said early:
> >Actually highly probably, since the seg fault is raised in luatex and
> >not context. Even if context is feeding it malformed input, luatex
> >should not ever crash.
> Only luatex can do a segmentation fault -- of course due a tex macro
> /lua function possibly called  from ConTeXt.
> What happen for me (linux ubuntu 10lts 32bit)  and Hans (windows (7
> professional 64bit ?) )  is a "TeX capacity exceeded," , not a seg.
> fault, and sometime happen if one calls a macro in a wrong way.
> So, do you have a segmentation fault or a TeX capacity exceeded on you
> linux 64bit box ?

As I said earlier, I get a segmentation fault if I leave it to run, but
I always have to kill it before it takes down the entire operating
system with it (apparently this is normal). I don't get the TeX capacity
exceeded error message, as you saw from my earlier console output.

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