[tex-live] Re: [tex-implementors] Re: bug in etex

[Jonathan Kew]

On 14 Jul 2004, at 2:40 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13 Jul 2004, at 3:29 pm, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
>>
>>> I have just reproduced the SIGSEGV with
>>>     "This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)"
>>> (yes we still use this somewhat oldish version).
>>>
>>
>> This suggests that my note re XeTeX (based on 3.14159-2.1) *not* 
>> failing on this test is probably irrelevant; most likely something 
>> else is masking the problem in that case.
>
> does xetex use omega (bigger array) or etex (sparse array) extended 
> registers ?

etex (sparse array).

Jonathan