Re: fixes for -Wmissing-declarations and -Wwrite-strings warnings

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Pouech Eric DMI AEI CAEN wrote:
> returning a pointer to something on the stack is something I call an error
> (how do you ensure that the buffer will not get overwritten by another function call ?)

It's not returning a pointer to something on the stack. It is returning 
driversFound[0] which is a pointer to a string which may have been 
malloc()'ed (you stripped that part of the code).
> > > char *audioAutoDetect(void)
> > > {
> > > [snip]
> > > char *driversFound[10];
> > > [snip]

maybe driversFound[0]=malloc(something);
> > > return driversFound[0];
> > > [snip]
> > > }