Static Array with negative index results in a strange error-message

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/23/18 9:32 AM, Dgame wrote:
> char[-1] c;
> 
> results in
> 
> Error: char[18446744073709551615LU] size 1 * 18446744073709551615 
> exceeds 0x7fffffff size limit for static array
> 
> Should we fix that? A negative index should be IMO detected sooner/with 
> a cleaner error message.

Hm.. at least it's detected. I actually don't think the message is 
wrong: -1 is a valid size_t literal, and results in that number.

if you did:

enum size_t x = -1;
char[x] c;

You would get the same result, and I don't know how we would fix that.

-Steve