?? I don’t understand what you mean. Those other languages don’t have pointers, they only have references, but what do they have to do with this?
Why do you still think there’s some yes in C? It’s not making sense yet that your memory is gone after you return? Returning a pointer to a local variable is exactly the same as calling delete or free on a pointer and then reading from it. You officially don’t own the memory after a return statement, so if you try to use it, then what happens is indeterminate. Again, since it doesn’t seem to be sinking in: it is always wrong to return a pointer to local memory. But, if you really really don’t want to listen, and you’re sure it works sometimes, then I say go for it!
Why do you still think there’s some yes in C? It’s not making sense yet that your memory is gone after you return? Returning a pointer to a local variable is exactly the same as calling delete or free on a pointer and then reading from it. You officially don’t own the memory after a return statement, so if you try to use it, then what happens is indeterminate. Again, since it doesn’t seem to be sinking in: it is always wrong to return a pointer to local memory. But, if you really really don’t want to listen, and you’re sure it works sometimes, then I say go for it!