Re: First program in C - what is going on with function returns?

Ok, that does the trick.

I have now moved the program to a linux system which was a bit fussier.
I cleaned up a bit by removing any global vars and making proper use of
function returns.

The program is compiling ok but I receive this warning:

daysalive.c: In function `speakdate':
daysalive.c:92: warning: function returns address of local variable

Is this a problem? Relevant code below.

char *speakdate(int d, int m, int y)
{
<snip>
return datestring;
}

int main(void)
{
<snip>
printf ("Your date of birth is
%s\n\n",speakdate(bdate,bmonth,byear));
<snip>
printf ("The current date is:
%s\n\n",speakdate(cdate,cmonth,cyear));
<snip>
}

.

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