new [] and length

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Is it always "count" or are you ever using "length" inside the brackets 
for new?

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> Are there any differences between these two fragments, besides the syntax?
> 
> char [] buf = new char [count];
> 
> char [] buf;
> buf.length = count;
> 
> I ask because when I use the first method and then pass it to Mango's 
> Atoi.parse, sometimes I get:
> 
> Error: ArrayBoundsError 
> /Users/carlos/Development/d/mango-2.0/mango/convert/Atoi.d(175)
> 
> But when I use the second method, I never get that error. In both cases 
> I'm using the same data, which unfortunately is too large and complex to 
> make a reduced test case.
> 
> I'm using GDC 0.17 on Mac. Could this be Mac only or GDC only?
>