http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91
--- Comment #10 from Peter Remmers <p.remm...@arcor.de> --- The more I read about this topic, the more I notice that D seems to have a long history of this popping up, dating back to as early as 2005. For example: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.d.general/97793 The idea of using char* usage as an indicator for C-style strings does not seem so bad a solution, given the limited possibilities and the consequences of other solutions that have been explored. The problem is, this needs to be well-documented. Every (scarce) piece of current documentation on this says "string literals are 0-terminated". No further constraints. So I would expect initializing a string variable with a literal would just copy the pointer and thus make the string also zero terminated. Zero termination popping in and out of existence depending upon the usage context is totally un-obvious, un-intuitive, and right now un-documented. And it is also a surprising behavior in only one of the three major D compilers. The again, just stating that "literals are 0-terminated", and making sure they always are, is what D currently has settled on. And I wouldn't have noticed any problems if I hadn't tried GDC :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
