D under dmd/Win10/64-bit currently seems to store strings
(slices) internally like so:
```d
static struct DString {
size_t length;
immutable(char)* ptr;
}
static assert(DString.sizeof == string.sizeof);
string s = "abcde";
DString d;
memcpy(&d, &s, s.sizeof);
assert(d.length == s.length);
assert(d.ptr == s.ptr);
```
If I write a DLL export like:
```d
extern(C) export string someDLLFunc() {
return "hello";
}
```
and import it in C# (VS .NET):
```c#
struct DString {
public long length;
public IntPtr ptr;
}
[DllImport("mydll.dll")]
extern DString someDLLFunc();
...
DString d = someDLLFunc();
System.Console.WriteLine("dstr: {0} : {1}", d.length, d.ptr);
```
Though C# seems to properly be getting 16 bytes as the return
value from `someDLLFunc()`, the length and ptr parameters are
both 0.
If I explicitly pass a struct back from D instead like so:
```d
static struct DString {
size_t length;
immutable(char)* ptr;
this(string str) {
length = str.length;
ptr = str.ptr;
}
}
extern(C) export DString someDLLFunc() {
return DString("hello");
}
```
it seems to work as expected with the same C# code. Does D
explicitly disallow slices as an extern(C) export parameter type?
