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From: roger@zuken.co.jp (Roger Meunier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ## question on memory allocation for char strings ##
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Date: 29 Jun 90 13:51:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: siping@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu's message of 28 Jun 90 17:49:18 GMT

In article <601@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> siping@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Siping Liu) writes:

 >char *f2()
 >{
 >  char abc[100];
 >
 >  strcpy(abc, "12345");
 >
 >  return(abc);
 >}

If you want to use the return value from f2() safely, make abc storage
class static, not automatic.  No variable in f2()'s scope is safe
outside of f2() otherwise.

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Roger Meunier @ Zuken, Inc.  Yokohama, Japan	(roger@zuken.co.jp)