.init property for char[] type

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> Justin Johansson (I think):
> > short.init    0
> > int.init        0
> > bool.init     false
> > byte.init     0
> > double.init  double.nan
> > long.init     0L
> > 
> 
> You forgot
> 
> char.init 0xFF
> wchar.init 0xFFFF
> dchar.init 0xFFFFFFFF

One small disadvantage of some of those init values (for not int variables) is that if you have a large global static array of floats or chars in your program, its memory can be found in the binary, that can become huge (you can avoid that setting the static array to void, and then I think the LDC compiler or the operating system resets such memory to zero anyway).

To avoid such huge binaries D can keep small static arrays like now, but it can initialize at run-time (before the main) the large static arrays.

Bye,
bearophile