Re: pre-funny being, well, funny...

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> DP> It works fine for me on:
> 
> DP> Linux inanna 2.5.6 #3 Mon Mar 11 23:34:33 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> DP> with:
> 
> DP> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1
> DP> (Web2C 7.3.7) ConTeXt ver: 2002.3.27 fmt: 2002.4.10 int: english
> DP> mes: english
> 
> What about MetaPost and the MetaFun format?

I couldn't find anything but: This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7)
This is the beta downloaded on the 28th of March.

...and whadda ya know. It broke for me with an integer overflow, just as
the OP reported. Error follows, but it's the same as he mentioned in the
thread.

This *definitely* worked for me earlier tonight, though, with exactly
the same setup and all. That's ... odd.

Ah. Found it. It only crashes that way if I am running off PDF output
with a '% output=pdftex' in the file -- running off to DVI works fine.

So, there you go. That makes a substantial difference. Sorry if I
confused the issue at all. It seems that running the output with PDF
output hits:

systems        : begin file test at line 3
layout         : calculating backgrounds
Randomizer initialized to 1638256672. [MP to PDF] (./mpgraph.8000
! Arithmetic overflow.
<to be read again> 
                   \relax 
\doMPconcat ...expanddimen 18 \doMPexpanddimen 18 
                                                  \divide \dimen 12 \dimen 1...

\flushconcatMPsegment ... {\gMPs 1}\a {\gMPs 2}\b 
                                                  \doMPconcat {\gMPs 3}\c {\...

\body ->\flushconcatMPsegment 
                              \advance \nofMPsegments 1 \ifnum \nofMPsegment...

\iterate ->\body 
                 \expandafter \iterate \else \fi 
\handleMPsequence ...\fi \fi \fi \fi \flushMPpath 
                                                  \closeMPpath \finishMPpath...
l.37 ...0.7071 -0.35356 0.7071 0 0] concat stroke 
                                                  grestore
?

        Daniel

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