static void arrays under garbage control?

[captaindet via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 2015-02-25 20:45, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:20:37PM -0600, captaindet via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> [...]
>> struct Stuff2Do{
>>      static ubyte[1024*1024] buffer4speed = void; // even if untyped at this point
>>
>>      // more
>> }
> [...]
>
> Tangential note: be careful with putting a large static array inside a
> struct. Structs are passed by value, which means that if you didn't
> allocate that struct on the heap and you pass it around to various
> functions, you will overflow your stack very quickly -- every function
> call that passes the struct will consume 1MB of stack space. Many OSes
> do not allocate that much space for the runtime stack.
>
>
> T
  
this is why i tried to get away with a 'static' static array, which only exists once for all Stuff2Do structs. but as it seems, i'll rather need on the order of 512MB buffer, so i will probably go with c.stdlib.malloc

/det