Vardhan, Sundara (GE Infra, Energy) wrote:
Hi All
I am calling a function x within strcpy as follows
strcpy(a,x("sample text","default text"));
x is defined as follows
char * x(char *m, char *n)
{
char *return_val=NULL;
if (check m is in database)
return_val=m;
else
return_val=n;
return(return_val);
}
This causes the array a to have a corrupted string. The string is either m or n but with illegal characters appended.
The function x returns a pointer local to it on the stack which is why
it is corrupted when its caller gets around to using it. Instead of
returning <return_val>, try return m (or n) assuming those values aren't
also pointers to values local to the function which produces them.
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