Strange compiler complaint when using similar code
- by Jason
For a project, I have to ask the user for a file name, and I'm reading it in character by character using getchar.
From the main, I call the function char *coursename= introPrint(); //start off to print the usage directions and get the first bit of input. That function is defined as
char *introPrint(){
int size= 20;
int c;
int length=0;
char buffer[size];
//instructions printout, cut for brevity
//get coursename from user and return it
while ( (c=getchar()) != EOF && (c != '\n') ){
buffer[length++]= c;
if (length==size-1)
break;
}
buffer[length]=0;
return buffer;
}
This is basically identical code I wrote to ask the user for input, replace the character echo with asterisks, then print out the results. Here, though, I'm getting a function returns address of local variable warning for the return statement. So why am I getting no warnings from the other program, but trigger one for this code?
