Re: dynamically allocating on the stack

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On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 01:07:44 UTC, Giles Bathgate wrote:

On Saturday, 21 April 2018 at 19:06:52 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

alloca is an intrinsic, and part of the language technically -- it has to be.

Why does:

scope c = new C();       // allocate c on stack
scope a = new char[len]; // allocate a via gc?

Its a special case for classes. Makes them usable without the GC.