what is going on here?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:53:50PM +0000, forkit via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> // ----
> 
> module test;
> void main(){ static char[2147483646] arr; }
> 
> // ----

I bet you it's the same problem I found a couple of years ago, where the
compiler translates the above code to something that individually
initializes every element of the array. I.e., there would be 2.1 billion
assignments, one for each element in the array.  Of course, afterwards
the optimizer would merge them into something saner, but while the
compiler is unfolding all those assignments, its memory usage would
obviously skyrocket.

Try setting `arr = void;` to see if it makes a difference. If it does,
it's probably the same problem.


T

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