@safe @nogc memory allocation

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On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 20:51:08 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
>> malloc? There's no wrapper around it though, like there is for 
>> uninitializedArray.
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> Is the fact that
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> malloc() can't be pure when new is
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> a limitiation in the type system?
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> Do we need a yet another code tag for this?
>
> /Per

It is also because `malloc` can return null when out of memory 
and `new` will throw an Error. Wrapper around `malloc` that 
throws `OutOfMemoryError` on null can be considered of same 
purity class as `new`.