From the D Blog -- Interfacing D with C: Strings Part One

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 5/24/21 8:38 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Monday, 24 May 2021 at 16:16:53 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

>> This leaves a GC-collectible allocation in C land. For `puts`, it's 
>> fine, as the data is not used past the call, but in something else 
>> that might keep it somewhere not accessible to the GC, you'll want to 
>> assign that to a variable that lasts as long as the resource is used.
>>
> 
> That's what I'm referring to in the conclusion where I say this about 
> what's going to be in Part Two:
> 
>> how to avoid a potential problem spot that can arise when passing 
>> GC-allocated D strings to C
> 
> I'll cover approaches to maintaining a reference, like `GC.addRoot`, and 
> emphasize that it applies to any GC-allocated memory, not just strings.

OK, I'm just concerned people will see the pattern:

```d
somecfunc(str.toStringz);
```

and think that's the end of it.

-Steve