• Cecil Ward (9/9) Jun 25 2023 The docs say that there is a limit on the size of large statics
• =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= (4/5) Jun 25 2023 Customers (at least Weka) did request larger statics in the past. Since
• Cecil Ward (6/13) Jun 25 2023 Ah, I did not know that, many thanks, I’m using LDC and GDC.

Cecil Ward <cecil cecilward.com> writes:

The docs say that there is a limit on the size of large statics 
of 16 MB. Is it desirable to remove this limit ? I realise that 
with new code there is the option to alloc the space instead 
where the static is uninitialised. There are other possibilities, 
such as an object filled with compile-time generated data maybe. 
The documentation also points out the crazy but understandable 
bloat on the exe size.

Is it possible to place a large object in BSS by using
   ubyte arr[ enormous ] = void;

=?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:

On 6/25/23 13:41, Cecil Ward wrote:

 The docs say that there is a limit on the size of large statics

Customers (at least Weka) did request larger statics in the past. Since 
they use LDC, the limit was removed for LDC. I did not try it. :)

Ali

Cecil Ward <cecil cecilward.com> writes:

On Sunday, 25 June 2023 at 21:08:13 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
 On 6/25/23 13:41, Cecil Ward wrote:

 The docs say that there is a limit on the size of large

 statics

 Customers (at least Weka) did request larger statics in the 
 past. Since they use LDC, the limit was removed for LDC. I did 
 not try it. :)

 Ali

Ah, I did not know that, many thanks, I’m using LDC and GDC.

A wishlist for the docs on the website would be to have them 
mention, and link to additional documentation regarding GDC and 
LDC, not just DMD. The docs should mainly be about the D language 
not solely about the DMD compiler.