How much memory does a pointer variable allocate?
Only enough memory to hold the pointer itself, not any memory for the pointer to point to. 7.5a: I have a function that is supposed to return a string, but when it returns to its caller, the returned string is garbage. A: Make sure that the pointed-to memory is properly (i.e. not locally) allocated.
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