Clarifcation on AA allocation

[Walter Bright]

pragma wrote:
> Is there any way to 'manually' allocate memory for an AA in D?

Not without reworking internal\aaA.d.

> The problem that prompted me to ask this?  Well, I have a class that maintains a
> set of HANDLES using an AA.  Ideally, I'd like to be able to free these using
> the class' dtor(), but isn't there the possibility that the GC will eliminate
> the AA's memory before the dtor() is even called?

As long as there's an active reference to the class object, anything the 
class object references, including AA's, will not be free'd by the GC.

Once there is no longer an active reference to class object, then the 
class object will be free'd along with any parts of the AA that are not 
referenced elsewhere, however, the order in which the class object and 
AA parts are free'd is undefined.

> I suppose I could instruct the GC to 'ignore' the AA via 'removeRange' for
> safety reasons, but I'd like to know if anyone else has a more elegant solution?

If you manually allocate/deallocate the class object, then manually 
delete the class object (thereby invoking the class's ~this()), any 
referenced AA objects will not have been collected already.