Re: 4000 pages limit?

[Jonas Stein <news@jonasstein.de>]

> Yesterday I was trying to typeset a very, very long document (about 3000
> pages in A4). Well, mkiv died with a 
>
> PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space))
>
> It's easily reproducible with a simple
>
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{50000}{
> \input knuth
> }
>
> Once it reaches page 4000 it will die.

i could run this
\starttext     
\dorecurse{50000}{narf \page}
\stoptext 

==
pdfTeX warning: pdftex: no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet!
Output written on test.pdf (50000 pages, 10574005 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
TeXExec | runtime: 310.679998
==

and got 50000 pages in one pdf.
Okular is quite slow in opening it and needs 200 MB RAM, but it works.

But i could not use Ctrl-C to break the loop. 
I think that is a bug, or not?

i use this context:
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/context

Kind regards,

-- 
Jonas Stein <news@jonasstein.de>

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