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From: corbin@nibroc.Eng.Sun.COM (John Corbin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: bug in sun-3/os4.1 rpc/xdr?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 06:45:18 GMT
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In article <90225.174053BACON@MTUS5.BITNET> BACON@MTUS5.BITNET (Jeffery Bacon) writes:
>...
>For this, I've written the following server procedure:
>
>--------------
>int *bla_1(oog) int *oog; { int erg = 5; printf("%d\n",*oog);return(&erg); }
>--------------

You need to declare erg to be a static variable. Your bla_1() routine is
returning the address of an automatic variable.  As to why it works on
some machines and not others, I would guess that for some the area on
the stack gets modified and for others it doesn't.

John Corbin	(jcorbin@Sun.COM)
Sun Microsystems