Bug 12548 – Safer malloc/calloc/realloc wrappers in Phobos

In my D code for various reasons I sometimes need or wants to use C memory allocating functions, the malloc/calloc/realloc. But in D they force the usage of a cast(), that I prefer to avoid. And often you need to specify the type two times, like this (such code is not DRY, and this leads to bugs): cast(T*)malloc(typeof(T).sizeof * 10); So I suggest to add to Phobos three little wrappers around those functions that allow remove those casts (this can't be done with the "alloca" function), that are safer than the C functions: cMalloc!T(n) cCalloc!T(n) cRealloc(ptr, n) cRealloc doesn't need the type because it's inferred from the given pointer.

std.experimental.allocator