Setting array length to 0 discards reserved allocation?

[Andrew Godfrey via Digitalmars-d]

Is this a bug? Or am I misunderstanding
something?


import std.stdio, std.string;
import std.array;

unittest {
     int[] a;
     a.reserve(10);
     a.length++;
     int *p = &(a[0]);

     a.length++; // Increase size. Shouldn't reallocate.
     int *p2 = &(a[0]);
     assert(p == p2); // And indeed it didn't.

     // So sometime later, we want to reuse the allocation. We 
'clear' it:
     a.length = 0;

     // ... and later start using it...
     a.length++;
     int *q = &a[0];
     assert(p == q, format("p: %s; q: %s", p, q)); // FAILS! (on 
dmd 2.065.0) Why? Apparently, setting length to 0 caused it to 
free the
                                                   // reserved 
allocation?
}