Dynamic arrays allocation size

["Luís]

On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 05:38:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On a tangent, despite appearances, the type of the right-hand 
> side is int with the value of -1073741824. It is according to 
> the arithmetic conversion rules:
>
>   http://dlang.org/type.html
>
> Ali

Ahh, right. If you do

     auto data = new byte[3 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024L];

with the L suffix, then it works, of course. But this is crazy! 
:-)

Really, something needs to be rethought here, do you really want 
your constant folding to to overflow at 32 bits by default?. Is 
this because of CTFE?

Luís