Is there an easy way to convert a pointer to malloc'd memory to an array?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 19:52:17 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>  You can do that??? I thought slices weren't allowed on raw 
> pointers. You just blew my mind away!

Slicing and indexing are both allowed (actually, that's a way to 
disable bounds checking on an individual expression, see tip: 
http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/dec-06.html ) on pointers, 
though it isn't considered @safe.

Be careful though: it is still manually managed, so if you pass 
it to some function that keeps a slice to your slice, you open 
yourself up to a use-after-free bug!