Calling a C Function with C-style Strings

[Ali Çehreli]

On 11/30/2013 07:58 AM, Dicebot wrote:

 > char[] name = "alpha".dup;
 > mktemp(name.ptr);
 >
 > D literals are zero-terminated so toStringz is only needed if you want
 > to pass to C function slice of literal or some runtime input.

However, I doubt that .dup copies that '\0' character. Although the 
literal has the termination, we are in slice land beyond that literal so 
the termination must somehow be ensured.

Ali