God no. You just case the appropriate address to some sort of pointer and manage it however you like. str*? you mean char*.. Of course you use that, that's a buffer :P
strtol et.al.
The bottom line is you can't avoid the CRT/C++RT when you use certain language constructs, same goes for D. Because D incorporates higher level constructs it might be more difficult than in C to actually do this.
