/*
* Copyright ©2026 Soham Pardeshi. All rights reserved.
* Permission is hereby granted to students registered for University of
* Washington CSE 333 for use solely during Summer Quarter 2026 for
* purposes of the course. No other use, copying, distribution, or
* modification is permitted without prior written consent. Copyrights
* for third-party components of this work must be honored. Instructors
* interested in reusing these course materials should contact the author.
*/
// INTENTIONAL BUG (lecture demo): returns the address of a local variable.
// Bad's frame is popped when it returns, so p in main dangles. Compiles
// (with a warning) but *p is undefined behavior.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int* Bad(void) {
int local = 42;
return &local; // address of a local!
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
int* p = Bad();
printf("%d\n", *p); // reads dead memory
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}