Porter

Before my last post, I didnt make an effort to actually test your code segment out for myself and see what was going on. so my bad on that part

However, I did run it just then and it turned out ok. I even ran the debugger and found out that the memory addressess of c and *p were idential after char *p=&c;

Heres the code I typed in (inc. line numbers)

Code:

18      char c= 'a';
19      char *ptr = &c;
20      return ptr;

Heres the gdb output at line 20

Code:

20      return ptr;

(gdb) print &c
$3 = 0xbffff6b7 "aÈöÿ¿q\203\004\b\2008\001@\024÷ÿ¿èöÿ¿Wl\003@\001"

(gdb) print ptr
$4 = 0xbffff6b7 "aÈöÿ¿q\203\004\b\2008\001@\024÷ÿ¿èöÿ¿Wl\003@\001"

So if your code suggestion works fine, then what is wrong with it ?? (Maybe something I missed ?)