Allocating a fixed-size array on the heap

[Jarrett Billingsley]

So, in the process of answering another thread, I realized that it doesn't 
entirely seem possible to allocate a fixed-size array on the heap through 
normal means.  That is,  the following is legal:

float[4] a;
float[4]* b = &a;

But:

float[4]* c = new float[4];

"Waiit," says the compiler, "the type of 'new float[4]' is float[]."

So here some syntactic sugar is getting in the way of writing what I mean!

I've come up with this:

T* alloc(T)()
{
    struct S
    {
        T t;
    }

    return &(new S).t;
}

..

float[4]* d = alloc!(float[4]);

but that seems awfully hackish.

Am I missing something or is this just yet another instance of how 
fixed-size arrays aren't treated as first-class citizens?