std.string.toStringz always allocates a new string, but it has this note:

```d
/+ Unfortunately, this isn't reliable.
 We could make this work if string literals are put
 in read-only memory and we test if s[] is pointing into
 that.

 /* Peek past end of s[], if it's 0, no conversion necessary.
 * Note that the compiler will put a 0 past the end of static
 * strings, and the storage allocator will put a 0 past the end
 * of newly allocated char[]'s.
 */
 char* p = &s[0] + s.length;
 if (*p == 0)
 return s;
 +/
```

and string literals weren't reliably in read-only memory as recently as early 2017: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6546#issuecomment-280612721

What's a reliable test that could be used in a toStringz that skips allocation when given a string in read-only memory?

As for whether it's a necessarily a good idea to patch toStringz, I'd worry that

1. someone will slice a string literal and pass the test while not having NUL where it's expected

2. people are probably relying by now on toStringz always allocating, to e.g. safely cast immutable off the result.

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