pointer->pointer problem

[Roy Johnson]

In article <1991Apr3.174058.13536 at bnlux1.bnl.gov> reilly at bnlux1.bnl.gov (kevin reilly) writes:

>char **FUNC1(...)
>{
>static char *lines[10];
>/* do stuff */
>return &lines[0];
>}

I just realized that lines is static, so it *should* all be initialized
to zero (NULL) pointers; give us more information on what you are doing
with lines.  If you are assigning it like

lines[4]=another_string;

then any changes you make to lines[4] will of course change
another_string, and what you would probably want to do is allocate
space for lines[4] (as in my last response) and
 strcpy(lines[4], another_string);

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