Dynamic arrays allocation size

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On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 13:56:26 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
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> 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

I don't know why there is this behaviour but I fully agree with 
you that this is a bug.
It should at least trigger a warning..

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