From 50fe23390e069d2bdee68a6e82224b7236182101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Treleaven <n@trelsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:39:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [rt/aaA] Add _aaNew function to initialize AA

Part of https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10535.
---
 src/rt/aaA.d | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/rt/aaA.d b/src/rt/aaA.d
index ab93f19163..b5897f93d4 100644
--- a/src/rt/aaA.d
+++ b/src/rt/aaA.d
@@ -485,6 +485,14 @@ pure nothrow @nogc unittest
 // API Implementation
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+/// Allocate new AA implementation.
+extern (C) AA _aaNew(const TypeInfo_AssociativeArray ti)
+{
+    AA aa;
+    aa.impl = new Impl(ti);
+    return aa;
+}
+
 /// Determine number of entries in associative array.
 extern (C) size_t _aaLen(scope const AA aa) pure nothrow @nogc
 {

From 3052ed287b58c0e80b2df048f3595084d7a67ec5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Treleaven <n@trelsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2022 16:19:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Improve ddoc

---
 src/rt/aaA.d | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/rt/aaA.d b/src/rt/aaA.d
index b5897f93d4..307c1765b8 100644
--- a/src/rt/aaA.d
+++ b/src/rt/aaA.d
@@ -485,7 +485,13 @@ pure nothrow @nogc unittest
 // API Implementation
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-/// Allocate new AA implementation.
+/** Allocate associative array data.
+ * Called for `new SomeAA` expression.
+ * Params:
+ *      ti = TypeInfo for the associative array
+ * Returns:
+ *      A new associative array.
+ */
 extern (C) AA _aaNew(const TypeInfo_AssociativeArray ti)
 {
     AA aa;