Error: array dimension overflow

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Brian Hay" <bhay at construct3d.com> wrote in message 
news:frviab$126$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Newbie Q:
>
> During compilation I'm getting the error: "array dimension overflow" but 
> it doesn't provide any information as to where (module and line number) 
> the error might be, so I'm at a loss. Other errors seem to provide such 
> information.
>
> Any ideas?

Hee hee hee.

static int[] x = [-1: 1];

There's some kind of funky logic in the compiler which for some reason does 
not detect negative initialization indices, but rather does something like

currentLength = index.toInt();
currentLength++;

if(currentLength == 0)
    error("array dimension overflow");

It's to detect index overflow, but it's easily fooled by using a negative 
index, which it should really detect anyway.

Are you using, maybe, 0xFFFF_FFFF anywhere as an array initializer index? 
Also, are you getting an "array initializers as expressions are not allowed" 
error at the same time by any chance?