http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57937
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Alexei Semenoff from comment #2) > Why example above works with simple cout ? > How cout is related with returning local or non local variable ? Returning the address to a local variable is undefined. So it just happens to work in that case.