So sayeth the Book of S. Pedersen, "Conversion of pointer.."
 CSP> Behold, a function which returns a pointer:
 CSP> int* test()
 CSP> {
 CSP> int i=5;
 CSP> return &i;
 CSP> }
 CSP> Why do I get a "Suspicious pointer conversion"-warning ? The functions
 CSP> using this concept seems to work OK. Should I make them differently.
 
 int i was defined locally to the test() function.  When you return &i, 
 you're returning a memory location that has been deallocated because 
 the memory taken by i is released back to the OS when the return is 
 called.  It seems to work OK because nothing has yet over-written the
 memory location, but you're not *guaranteed* that something won't over
 write it when you try to use i.
 A better, safer, and guaranteed  way to do what you're trying to do
 follows:
 void test( int i )
 {
    i=5;
    return;
 }
 You're not getting a pointer back, but you could use &i (or whatever
 the variable name is in the calling function ).
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