"bearophile" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > I'd like a higher max size limit for static arrays: > uint[10_000_000] arr; > For the LDC compiler is a fully arbitrary limit, it can support higher > values. I'd like ldc to be free to use a higher limit. > > > Most/all PC CPUs & operating systems are probably going to become 64 bit, > but in D int values are 32 bit, so some years from now, when everything is > 64 bit D programs will probably keep containing: > int i; > Unless D programmers will train themselves to nearly never use int and > usually use: > long i; > that will be about as equally fast, but less probable to cause integral > overflow. > The choice of 32 bit as default int number in D may look bad few years > from now. > I don't see good solution. To me the best solution seems to use "long" > everywhere in future programs fit for a 64 bit world (cent/ucent will be > present, LLVM supports them already, so it's easy to add them to LDC). > > Bye, > bearophile
Isn't that more or less what "size_t" is for?
