On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 08:27:14 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
Hi!

Why in std.file toStringz used without store a pointer in
function body to prevent GC collection?

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/file.d

Best Regards,
Ilya

It is assumed that the pointer is not moved to the C heap where the GC can't see it. The stack is the stack; it doesn't matter if it's a D or C function, the GC sees it anyway.

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