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Can detect violations of this rule. It automatically detects returning pointers to local variables. Detecting more general cases, such as examples where static pointers are set to local variables which then go out of scope, would be difficult

Coverity

RETURN_LOCAL

Finds many instances where a function will return a pointer to a local stack variable. Coverity Prevent cannot discover all violations of this rule, so further verification is necessary

Fortify SCA

7.6.0

Can detect violations when an array is declared in a function and then a pointer to that array is returned

Klocwork

LOCRET.*

LDRA tool suite

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