Question about arrays

[Ivan Kazmenko]

On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 21:46:08 UTC, Etienne wrote:
> But yes, static array / memory blocks vs pointer+len explains 
> it better, I'm trying to grow an idea of the concept of stacks 
> but it's harder to work with, I thought it would help me catch 
> an idea of why I couldn't prevent `ubyte[1024*1024] ub;` from 
> crashing. While working with buffers, this is going to come in 
> handy!

That could be simply a stack overflow error.  On Windows, the 
maximum stack size is compiled into the executable, and the 
default for dmd is 1 mebibyte (you can, for example, add the flag 
"-L/STACK:268435456" to set it to 256 mebibytes instead).  On 
Linux, you can control the stack size externally with ulimit tool.

Ivan Kazmenko.