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From: pl@news.funet.fi.tut.fi (Lehtinen Pertti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why 'life after free'.
Message-ID: <1990Oct2.104509.1744@funet.fi>
Date: 2 Oct 90 10:45:09 GMT
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From article <1990Sep30.163824.12974@ibmpcug.co.uk>, by dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell):
> 
> Forgive me if I'm wrong, but whats wrong with doing ....
> 
> char *
> funny(c)
> char c;
> {
> 	static char a[100];
> 	int i;
> 
> 	for (i=0 ; i<99 ; i++) a[i] = c;
> 	a[99] = '\0';
> 	return (&a[0]);
> }
> 

	With this function call's like

	printf( "%s %s\n", funny( 'x' ), funny( 'y' ) );

	do not work as expected.

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