char *temp = “string constant";

char *someFun()

    {

    char *temp = “string constant";

    return temp;

    }

    int main()

    {

    puts(someFun());

    }

Answer:

    string constant

Explanation:

    The program suffers no problem and gives the output correctly because the character constants are stored in code/data area and not allocated in stack, so this doesn’t lead to dangling pointers.

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