[Issue 20490] New: malloc and free should be @safe / @trusted

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20490

          Issue ID: 20490
           Summary: malloc and free should be @safe / @trusted
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P1
         Component: druntime
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: n8sh.secondary at hotmail.com

malloc and calloc should be @trusted because by specification they cannot
corrupt memory regardless of what arguments they are passed. core.stdc.stdlib.d
has this comment explaining why they aren't @trusted:

// We don't mark these @trusted. Given that they return a void*, one has
// to do a pointer cast to do anything sensible with the result. Thus,
// functions using these already have to be @trusted, allowing them to
// call @system stuff anyway.

That comment is longer than just writing @trusted twice. Moreover since that
comment was written Phobos has adopted the style of wrapping individual
statements in @trusted lambdas instead of marking entire functions as @trusted.

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