Is there a GC'd malloc alternative?

[Johan Granberg]

0ffh wrote:

> 
> Hi, I'm new to D but got into it pretty quickly...
> it's heaven for a lazy old C coder! }:->>>
> 
> I just wonder if there is no library function that
> works like 'malloc' but in garbage collected memory?
> 
> Happy hacking, 0ffh
> 
> p.s.
> I am probably not looking for the 'new' operator,
> as 'new' seems to take only certain types as
> "argument", not the size of the requested memory
> chunk, as does 'malloc'.

are you sure about the new thing. I think that this code would work.

new void[SIZE];

where SIZE is an integer representing how large chunk of memory you want to
reserve.

ps. this newsgroup is all but abandoned use the digitalmars.D instead.