Passing static array to C variadic function

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 22 July 2014 at 13:28:27 UTC, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 22.07.2014 11:01, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
>>
>> Old D code (from the 32-bit only days) used to do this 
>> successfully:
>>
>> printf("Hello %.*s\n", "segfault");
>>
>> So it relied on both the length and pointer being passed.  
>> Unfortunately
>> this was done quite a lot, so simply changing the rules so 
>> string
>> literals get passed to C varargs as pointers would silently 
>> (and
>> horribly) break this code.

> (isn't there a proper string type in D2?)

nope, it's just an ordinary slice (although the fact that it's a 
slice of char does make it a bit special w.r.t. unicode)

The compiler doesn't even know about the name string, it's just 
defined here:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/object.di#L28