static void arrays under garbage control?

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 02/26/2015 10:07 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 >>      // will not be scanned by GC for pointers:
 >>      void[] buffer4 = cast(void[])(new ubyte[16]);
 >>      uint[] buffer5 = cast(uint[])(new ubyte[16]);
 >
 > Correct, since they are allocated as ubyte[]. uint[] also would not be
 > scanned.

I've been under the impression that current GC being imprecise, even an 
unfortunate bit-pattern in an int would keep otherwise dead objects 
alive. Is that still true for a single int?

And is 'new int[N]' better in this regard because it never keeps objects 
alive?

Ali