Scoping question in C

[Henry Spencer]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, William Park wrote:
> But, if the static string lives for the duration of the program, then
> pointer to it should always be valid, no?  Eg.
> 	char *y;
> 	y = "something inside";
> 	return (y);
> Here, 'y' (or, what the function returns) should be valid for entire
> program.

Correct.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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