Associative Arrays max length? 32bit/64bit

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On Saturday, 17 May 2014 at 00:25:13 UTC, sdvcn wrote:
> import std.stdio;
>
> import std.utf;
> import std.uni;
> import std.string;
> import std.random;
> import std.conv;
>
> int main(string[] argv)
> {
>
> 	size_t[string] bary;
>
> 	try{
> 		for(size_t i=0;i<(size_t.max -1);i++)
> 		{
> 			bary["Key:" ~  to!(string)(i)] = i;
> 		}
> 	}catch(Exception e)
> 	{
> 		writeln(e);
> 	}
>     return 0;
> }
> // This code will overflow?
>
>
> bary.length <> size_t.max ?
>
> 32bit bary.length == 64bit bary.length ?

I cannot get the 32bit version to run on my computer, but what 
exactly is happening?

I suspect you will simply run out of memory at some point, but 
this shouldn't be caught by catch(Exception), as it should throw 
an Error.

Can you post the exact output of your program?