C API / const char *text / std.string.toStringz pointer is always NULL on C side

[Robert M. Münch]

On 2018-05-16 17:46:59 +0000, Steven Schveighoffer said:

>> Well, for C see above on the D side:
>> 
>>     extern(C) {
>>           result myfunc(double x, double y, const char *text, stuff 
>> *myStuff, bool measureOnly);
>>     }
> 
> Shouldn't the result be a pointer?

Indeed. And you know what? That was causing the problem.

So, having a wrong return-type here, resulted in the const char *text 
parameter always being NULL. Not sure I understand the relation but 
looks strange to me... at least not very obvious.

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