What's the D way of allocating memory?

[Gary Willoughby]

On Thursday, 8 August 2013 at 18:53:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 August 2013 at 18:35:06 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
> wrote:
>> calloc is marked as nothrow but apparently throws 
>> OutOfMemoryError on allocation failure? ..eh? O_o
>
> http://dlang.org/function.html
> Nothrow Functions:
> Nothrow functions do not throw any exceptions derived from 
> class Exception.
>
> Error is not Exception (they are both Throwable though), Errors 
> are considered non-recoverable and leaving program in invalid 
> state. They are allowed even in nothrow functions.

Ah right thanks.