[tex-live] Memory curruption (Was: no subject)

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:10:31AM +0200, Werner Fink wrote:
> 
>  eptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex \*platex.ini
>  This is e-pTeX, Version 3.1415926-p3.2-110415-2.3 (utf8.euc) (TeX Live 2011) (INITEX)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>  entering extended mode
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/platex.ini
>  <<< making "platex with Babel" format >>>
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/base/platex.ltx
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
>  [...]
>  **************************
>  *
>  * making pLaTeX format
>  *
>  **************************
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/base/plcore.ltx
>  ! Dimension too large.
>  \adjustbaseline ...djust at box \cwd \wd \adjust at box 
>                                                    \cvs \normalbaselineskip \...
>  l.628 \adjustbaseline
> 
>  ? x
>  No pages of output.
>  Transcript written on platex.log.
> 
> from tail of platex.log:
> 
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx)
>  )
>  **************************
>  *
>  * making pLaTeX format
>  *
>  **************************
>  (/tmp/=/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/base/plcore.ltx
>  \Cht=\dimen102
>  \cht=\dimen103
>  \Cdp=\dimen104
>  \cdp=\dimen105
>  \Cwd=\dimen106
>  \cwd=\dimen107
>  \Cvs=\dimen108
>  \cvs=\dimen109
>  \Chs=\dimen110
>  \chs=\dimen111
>  \cHT=\dimen112
>  \tstrutbox=\box26
>  \zstrutbox=\box27
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \selectfont on input line 379.
>  \adjust at box=\box28
>  \adjust at dimen=\dimen113
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \fontencoding on input line 500.
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \fontfamily on input line 548.
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \fontseries on input line 601.
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \fontshape on input line 604.
>  LaTeX Info: Redefining \normalfont on input line 618.
> 
>  ! Dimension too large.
>  \adjustbaseline ...djust at box \cwd \wd \adjust at box 
>                                                    \cvs \normalbaselineskip
> \...
>  l.628 \adjustbaseline
> 
>  ? x
> 
>  Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
>   4131 strings out of 498426
>   56505 string characters out of 3222515
>   47789 words of memory out of 3500000
>   3394 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+200000
>   3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
>   745 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
>   21i,0n,20p,263b,76s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
>  No pages of output.

I've identified:

 texmf/tex/platex/base/plcore.ltx

with

 \newbox\adjust at box
 \newdimen\adjust at dimen
 \def\adjustbaseline{%
     \setbox\adjust at box\hbox{\char\euc"A1A1}%
     \cht\ht\adjust at box
     \cdp\dp\adjust at box
     \cwd\wd\adjust at box
     \cvs\normalbaselineskip
     \chs\cwd
     \cHT\cht \advance\cHT\cdp
   \iftdir
     \setbox\adjust at box\hbox{\tbaselineshift\z@ M}%
     \adjust at dimen\ht\adjust at box
     \advance\adjust at dimen\dp\adjust at box
     \advance\adjust at dimen-\cHT
     \divide\adjust at dimen\tw@
     \advance\adjust at dimen\cdp
     \advance\adjust at dimen-\dp\adjust at box
     \tbaselineshift\adjust at dimen
   \fi}

as cause, that is that the command

  \wd \adjust at box 

returns an invalid number (added \typeout{\number\wd\adjust at box} for check)
Using a single byte character instead of "A1A1 works flawless.

    Werner

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