Challenging Question! I've to point char* to an int

[Rehan FASTian]

char* f(){
      char* result;//I have to return 'result' at the end of this function, where result should be containing i (i.e. int i=97) in it.
      int i = 97;

      //Do whatever you can

      return result;
}

[ne555]

<nolyc> You're trying to do X, and you thought of solution Y. So you're asking about solution Y, without even mentioning X. The problem is, there might be a better solution, but we can't know that unless you describe what X is.

[vlad from moscow]

char* f()
{
      char* result = new char( 97 );
      return result;
}

[o1vk4iN6]

That's not the ideal solution though, it is error prone and the user would have to look up documentation to see what kind of pointer is being outputted and whether they need to handle deallocation or not.

void f(char* out)
{
    *out = 97;
}

// ...

char a;
char* b = new char;

f(&a);
f(b);

delete b;

[S G H]

@OP: Why do you need to return a char*?
Do you need to return multiple types of variables, are you forced to return char*, or...?