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diff --git a/doc/manual.rst b/doc/manual.rst index f0bd85638..9f614c2cd 100644 --- a/doc/manual.rst +++ b/doc/manual.rst @@ -1380,10 +1380,9 @@ variadic proc, it is implicitly converted to `cstring` too: Even though the conversion is implicit, it is not *safe*: The garbage collector does not consider a `cstring` to be a root and may collect the underlying -memory. However, in practice, this almost never happens as the GC considers -stack roots conservatively. One can use the builtin procs `GC_ref` and -`GC_unref` to keep the string data alive for the rare cases where it does -not work. +memory. For this reason, the implicit conversion will be removed in future +releases of the Nim compiler. Certain idioms like conversion of a `const` string +to `cstring` are safe and will remain to be allowed. A `$` proc is defined for cstrings that returns a string. Thus to get a nim string from a cstring: |