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18 Sep
2018
18 Sep
'18
1:11 a.m.
On 17 Sep 2018, at 21:17, Fabrice L
wrote: Dear List,
I’m running into a problem in Metapost (using Context of course!) creating (I think) too many objects; I got this error message:
variable instance identifiers exhausted
The max value for that is 2^31, or about 2 billion (and some change). Are you sure you do not have an eternal loop in your source? Best wishes, Taco