On Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 09:01:17 UTC, jfondren wrote:
They don't do the same thing. toStringz always copies, always
GC-allocates, and always NUL-terminates. `cast(char*)` only
does what you want in the case that you're applying it a string
literal. But in that case you shouldn't cast, you should just
```d
const char* s = "John";
```
If you need cast cast the const away to work with a C API,
doing that separately, at the point of the call to the C
function, makes it clearer what you're doing and what the risks
are there (does the C function modify the string? If so this
will segfault).
Yeah I won't cast when having a `const char*`. I already
mentioned that it works without cast with `const` variables ;)
