[metapost] Reaching the limit of beginfig

[Peng Yu]

On 11/15/06, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
> Peng Yu wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I need to generate thousands of figures from the same metapost program.
> > But the command "beginfig(6000)" or "fignumber := 6000; beginfig(fignumber);"
> > gives me some errors. Is there any walkaround?
>
> If you set
>
>         warningcheck := 0;
>
> (like the message proposed) you can go up to 32767, but then metapost
> no longer reports on some of the overflow checks, so you have to be
> sure that your figures are not so large they produce wrong results.

Is there a way to increase the limit?

Thanks,
Peng