Let us consider this following program,
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int* Array() {
int a[100];
a[0] = 7;
a[1] = 6;
a[2] = 4;
a[3] = 3;
return a;
}
int main() {
int* p = Array();
cout << p[0] << " " << p[1]<<" "<<p[2]<<" "<<p[3];
return 0;
}In this program,We get warning as,
Output
In function 'int* Array()': warning: address of local variable 'a' returned [-Wreturn-local-addr] int a[100];
We return the address of local variable but this is not possible as local variable may not exist in memory after the end of function call. So, C++ doesn’t support function returning arrays.