GC.addRange in pure function

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On Sunday, 7 February 2021 at 14:13:18 UTC, vitamin wrote:
> Why using 'new' is allowed in pure functions but calling 
> GC.addRange or GC.removeRange isn't allowed?

Does 'new' violate the 'pure' paradigm? Pure functions can only 
call pure functions and GC.addRange or GC.removeRange is only 
'nothrow @nogc'.