• Keir <spam no.grok.ath.cx> Feb 20 2008
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Feb 20 2008
• "Dave" <Dave_member pathlink.com> Feb 20 2008

Keir <spam no.grok.ath.cx> writes:

I expected the following to blow up with horrid results, but it seems to 
truck along just fine.

//{BeginCode}//////////////////////////////////////////////////
import std.stdio;

void main()
  {
  int[] arr;
  arr.length = (3*6);

  arr[3] = 3;
  arr[4] = 4;
  arr[5] = 5;
  arr[10] = 10;
  arr[18] = 18;  // expected runtime arraybounds error here
  arr[19] = 19;
  arr[20] = 20;
  arr[21] = 21;
  arr[22] = 22;
  arr[30] = 30;

  // should overwrite ~some~thing important, yes?
  for ( int i;i<arr.length*10;i++)
    arr[i]=i+1;

  // expected arr[18] to throw the arraybounds error
  for ( int i;i<31*5;i++)
    writefln("%s [%s]",i,arr[i]);   
  }

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

Keir wrote:
 I expected the following to blow up with horrid results, but it seems to 
 truck along just fine.
 
 //{BeginCode}//////////////////////////////////////////////////
 import std.stdio;
 
 void main()
   {
   int[] arr;
   arr.length = (3*6);
 
   arr[3] = 3;
   arr[4] = 4;
   arr[5] = 5;
   arr[10] = 10;
   arr[18] = 18;  // expected runtime arraybounds error here
   arr[19] = 19;
   arr[20] = 20;
   arr[21] = 21;
   arr[22] = 22;
   arr[30] = 30;
 
   // should overwrite ~some~thing important, yes?
   for ( int i;i<arr.length*10;i++)
     arr[i]=i+1;
 
   // expected arr[18] to throw the arraybounds error
   for ( int i;i<31*5;i++)
     writefln("%s [%s]",i,arr[i]);   
   }


Did you compile with -debug?
I don't recall exactly, but I think that may be required to turn on 
array bounds checking.

--bb

"Dave" <Dave_member pathlink.com> writes:

Don't throw the -release switch and you should see the ABE.

"Keir" <spam no.grok.ath.cx> wrote in message 
news:Xns9A4A65F8592BCpantherkeir 65.204.18.192...
I expected the following to blow up with horrid results, but it seems to
 truck along just fine.

 //{BeginCode}//////////////////////////////////////////////////
 import std.stdio;

 void main()
  {
  int[] arr;
  arr.length = (3*6);

  arr[3] = 3;
  arr[4] = 4;
  arr[5] = 5;
  arr[10] = 10;
  arr[18] = 18;  // expected runtime arraybounds error here
  arr[19] = 19;
  arr[20] = 20;
  arr[21] = 21;
  arr[22] = 22;
  arr[30] = 30;

  // should overwrite ~some~thing important, yes?
  for ( int i;i<arr.length*10;i++)
    arr[i]=i+1;

  // expected arr[18] to throw the arraybounds error
  for ( int i;i<31*5;i++)
    writefln("%s [%s]",i,arr[i]);
  }