Memory allocation purity

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/14/2014 3:42 PM, Brian Schott wrote:
> If malloc can never be considered pure, even when hidden behind an allocator,

It cannot be pure as long as it can fail.

> why can it be considered pure when hidden behind the GC?

Because GC failures are not recoverable, so the pure allocation cannot fail.