Static arrays size limit, int

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> 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
>

It's not really *easy* to add them to LDC, since they're not
implemented in the frontend at all.