[Issue 14134] Free of large array does not work

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14134

--- Comment #5 from Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario at gmx.de> ---
Maybe we should relax the restriction on base pointers for free().

What should happen with code like this?

   struct S { ~this() { printf("~this\n"); } int x; }

   S[] arr = new S[1000];
   S[] slice = arr[100..200];
   S[] tail = arr[200..1000];
   delete slice;

Should it call call only 100 destructors? All 1000? Is this invalid code?

Calling dtors twice could be fixed by explicitely removing the FINALIZE
attribute from the block, but could not work for just a part of the array.

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