How to allocate/free memory under @nogc

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I'm a bit puzzled about the whole `@nogc` thing. At first I 
thought it just switched off the garbage collector and that you 
had to allocate and free memory manually using `import 
core.memory: GC;` I tried this and it failed because @nogc means 
that the function can not allocate/free memory 
(https://dlang.org/spec/function.html#nogc-functions). If this is 
the case, how do you allocate/free memory without using the 
garbage collector? Does allocating and freeing memory using 
`GC.malloc` and `GC.free` avoid D's garbage collector? Also what 
is the syntax for removing dangling pointers?

Can you also confirm that `@nogc` in a class do the same thing in 
that class as it does for a function? Also structs are not 
supposed to be tracked by the garbage collector but if I do 
something like this:

```
struct MyType(T)
{
  T[] data;
  this(size_t n)
  {
    data = new T[n];
  }
}
```

Is `data` in `MyType` tracked by the garbage collector? If it is 
how do I allocate it in such a way that it is not?

Thanks