Can you allocate an array with something equivalent to make_shared?

Do you need the allocated memory to be shared? You can use a std::unique_ptr instead and the std::make_unique available on C++14:

auto buffer = std::make_unique<char[]>(64);

There will be a std::make_shared version available in C++20:

auto buffer = std::make_shared<char[]>(64);

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