manual memory management

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 00:18:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> And that is not dereferencing null, it is dereferencing 
> 0x1000000.

Yes, but it is worth noting that dmd will happily compile that 
code, even if marked @safe - just because the pointer on the 
language level is null doesn't mean it is memory safe at the 
assembly level.

the generated code with @safe is still just what we'd expect too:
    3:   31 c0                   xor    eax,eax
    5:   c7 80 00 00 10 00 0a    mov    DWORD PTR 
[eax+0x100000],0xa