On 2011-04-04 06:37, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:45:51 -0400, bearophile <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > simendsjo: > >> http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/arrays.html says static arrays are > >> limited to 16mb, but I can only allocate 1mb. > >> My fault, or bug? > > > > It accepts 4_000_000 ints, but not (16 * 1024 * 1024) / int.sizeof = > > 4_194_304 ints. I don't know why it's designed this way... I'd like > > 4_194_304 ints. > > That would be 16 MiB. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Most of the time that anyone talks about megabytes, they mean mebibytes, so I think that it's unrealistic to expect that anyone is going to see 16MB and think that it means 16_000_000 bytes reather than 16_777_216 bytes. - Jonathan M Davis
