Microsoft Interview Question
Phone interview question: In C, why is it considered bad form for a function to return a pointer to a stack-allocated variable? What happens if you do it anyway?
Interview Answer
Anonymous
May 5, 2009
Here's a hint: You can actually do this in C, and your program will work okay... for a while. The data that your pointer points to will not be corrupted until your program performs a certain action.
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