tim_boemker@zacatecas.optimum.com (Tim Boemker) wrote:

>Other than this (keeping a pointer into a temporary which has
been
>destroyed), are there any other pitfalls?

If the string is reference counted then the pointer could
be invalid if the string gets modified.

- Kalyan

In article <9512116.20937@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:

> It's to make it harder for programmers to make mistakes like the
> following:
>
>         string foo() {
>                 return "Hello World";
>         }
>         int main() {
>                 const char *s = foo();
>                 puts(s);
>                 return 0;
>         }

Other than this (keeping a pointer into a temporary which has been
destroyed), are there any other pitfalls?

Tim Boemker
Optimum Group
(513) 577-7785