toStringz in std.file

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Wednesday, 29 January 2014 at 08:27:14 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko 
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Why in std.file toStringz used without store a pointer in
> function body to prevent GC collection?
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master/std/file.d
>
> Best Regards,
> Ilya

It is assumed that the pointer is not moved to the C heap where 
the GC can't see it. The stack is the stack; it doesn't matter if 
it's a D or C function, the GC sees it anyway.