On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Brad Roberts wrote: > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5370 > > It's listed as a regression, but it looks like a deliberate behavior change. My personal opinion is that buffers don't > contain pointers. They shouldn't participate in garbage collection. Agreed. Buffers contain bytes, not arbitrary data.