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dee0xeed opened this issue Oct 29, 2022 · 1 comment
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Compilation error when a function returns local variable address? #13344

dee0xeed opened this issue Oct 29, 2022 · 1 comment

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Returning a pointer to local variable is a pretty frequent error made by beginner programmers.
Some C compilers (gcc at least) emits a warning in such cases.
It would be nice if Zig could analyze this.
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rohlem commented Oct 29, 2022

Duplicate of #2646 (although that issue's text isn't as direct/specific).

@kuon kuon mentioned this issue Jan 2, 2023
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