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George N. White III wrote:
Consider the trivial test file:
------------------------------------- % example from: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography % Format using: % $ texexec --once t-cont % $ bibtex t-cont % $ texexec t-cont \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext As \cite[article-full] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext -------------------------------------
Following instructions: -------------------------------------
texexec --once bibdemo TeXExec | processing document 'bibdemo' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file bibdemo.top TeXExec | using randomseed 595 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.7 (MiKTeX 2.7) entering extended mode (bibdemo.tex
ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.28 21:28 MKII fmt: 2008.2.18 int: english/english [....]
Output written on bibdemo.pdf (2 pages, 42919 bytes). Transcript written on bibdemo.log.
pdftex: Virtual memory exhausted while trying to reserve 8 bytes for table ???.
MiKTeX talks wild here. The correct message should be: "The heap is corrupted." The problem shows up when the fontinfo array is freed (at the end of the pdfTeX run). IIRC, Web2C never frees any tables, i.e., you will never see this problem in TeX live.