Pointing to the wrong thing......

["Josiah Avery" <josiahavery@hotmail.com>]

   Hello all,

   I have once again run into another memory type problem. This one really 
has me running up walls. Heres the scenario: I have created this function 
which preforms operations on 4 pararmeters ( more specifically, it scans the 
edge of a polygon and store as the points in an array ). After this is 
completed, I have the function return a pointer to the beggining of the 
array. Sorta like this:

int* _doStuff(int a, int b, int c, int d)
{
   int* results;

   // do some stuff here to initalize the members of results.....

   return results;
}

That works out as planned, and I get a address from which I can refrence the 
data. The problem is, I  have another function that calls this function. 
Sorta like:

void _doSomeMoreStuff(void)
{
   int* a;
   int* b;
   int* c;

   a = _doStuff(x,x,x,x);
   b = _doStuff(x,x,x,x);
   c = _doStuff(x,x,x,x);

   // more things go on down here.....
}

That works sorta as planned... The sorta is on account that a,b, and c all 
point to the same memory location!!! I have been having the the function log 
stuff to a file and here is a sample:

edge1 @ 4F46:0004 = x = 20 y = 90
edge2 @ 4F46:0004 = x = 20 y = 90
edge3 @ 4F46:0004 = x = 20 y = 90

edge1 @ 4F46:000A = x = 20 y = 89
edge2 @ 4F46:000A = x = 20 y = 89
edge3 @ 4F46:000A = x = 20 y = 89

edge1 @ 4F46:0010 = x = 20 y = 88
edge2 @ 4F46:0010 = x = 20 y = 88
edge3 @ 4F46:0010 = x = 20 y = 88

edge1 @ 4F46:0016 = x = 20 y = 87
edge2 @ 4F46:0016 = x = 20 y = 87
edge3 @ 4F46:0016 = x = 20 y = 87

   I hope that someone will be able to assist me in this regard. And as 
always, I am willing to provide exact source if it will be of help.

  Josiah Avery
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