Re: a curious questions about return type

Andrew Poelstra wrote:

questions? wrote:
char * get_month(double number){
char month[10];
blah blah

return month
};
[...]

Just replace
char month[10];
with
char *month = malloc(10);

Just be sure to #include <stdlib.h>, and to document that the calling
function needs to handle the deallocation (this is important because any
code could become a library if need be).

And be sure to document that the caller is responsible for free()ing the
returned buffer when done, in order to prevent memory leaks.

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