[dev-context] Re: \showskips bug

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> 
>> You mean that I can see how fast my computer finishes the endless
>> loop? My Cray finishes those kind of loops in one week ;-)
>>  
>>
> long before that tex will reach its 64 K page limit -)

That's fixed, a while back. my pdfetex now quitted at

   [94729] [94730] [94731] [94732] [94733] [94734] [94735] [94736
   ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [indirect objects table size=300000].
   <output> {\shipout \box 255
                             \global \advance \pageno 1 \unhbox 255 }
   <to be read again>
                    \end
   l.3 \bye

   !  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
   Transcript written on out.log.

After a minute or two.

Taco