16MB static arrays again...

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/24/2016 3:55 AM, Tomer Filiba wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 August 2016 at 09:38:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> 1) Why? I know everything in compile-time, why force me to (A) allocate it
>>> separately in `shared static this()`
>>
>> I'm not sure how that hurts anything. It's just a call to malloc().
>
> Static this()es require a topological order on modules, or it blows up when
> running the module ctors. We've had many issues with static-this()es that
> required us to split modules into "top and bottom parts", which only serve
> breaking cycles for the ctors (i.e., not a logical compilation unit, but a
> technical one).

Splitting them, as you say, works, as well as simply creating a function that 
does it and calling it when main() starts.