On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 02:58:03PM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> This is possibly a dumb question, but what happens for a static local,
> rather than an auto local? e.g.
>
> int *f (void)
> {
> static int i;
> return &i;
> }
This is fine. The variable i has a static storage duration, so is allocated
when the program begins and is deallocated when the program ends. There's only
one instance of the variable i.
Marek
