@gc attribute for bypassign @nogc

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 23:30:37 UTC, bitwise wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 July 2016 at 23:10:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> @nogc functions must never ever trigger GC collection cycle, 
>> not under any possible circumstances. Otherwise the attribute 
>> serves no purpose.
>
> The fact that you can use malloc() in a @nogc function 
> invalidates this argument.

nope. `malloc()` has nothing to do with garbage collection.

what `@nogc` means is "i won't use built-in allocator with 
garbage collection in this code", not "i won't do any memory 
allocations in this code".