Scoping question in C

[pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org]

> I have question regarding scope of static string inside C function.
> Suppose I have
> 
>     char *x;
> 
>     int func ()
>     {
>  x = "something";
>  return (1);
>     }
> 

You can test this out yourself with this code, defining a main() and 
printf'ing the result. On Cygwin, I get nothing (2 carriage returns).

> where 'x' is global variable being used elsewhere.  Can I use 'x'
> after func() exits?  That is, is 'x' still pointing to string

Well, you can *use* x, but I don't think it will have that value. But 
on my GCC compiler, I gave x an old value, which got clobbered and 
replaced with an empty string.

> "something"?
> 
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