Weird behaviour with strings and structs

Question

I've been having problems with the code below, and i would like to understand why it doesn't work. I'm getting a weird behaviour when i directly use a string inside a struct, returned from a function.

The first printf works no problem, same with the second and the third one, but for some reason the last one goes in segmentation fault or just prints a random string. The problem doesn't show up if I try using a char pointer in the structure instead of an array.

#include <stdio.h>

typedef struct
{
    int value;
    char string[23];
} Test;

Test func()
{
    Test nuovo = {5, "test"};
    return nuovo;
}

int main()
{
    Test test = func();
    printf("\n1: %d", func().value);

    printf("\n2: %s", test.string);

    printf("\n3: %s", &(func().string[0]));

    printf("\n0: %s", func().string);
    return 0;
}

Output:

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"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" --build C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug --target test -- -j 4
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -SC:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test -BC:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug --check-build-system CMakeFiles\Makefile.cmake 0
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f CMakeFiles\Makefile2 test
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/rober/CLionProjects/test/cmake-build-debug'
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -SC:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test -BC:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug --check-build-system CMakeFiles\Makefile.cmake 0
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -E cmake_progress_start C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug\CMakeFiles 2
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f CMakeFiles\Makefile2 CMakeFiles/test.dir/all
mingw32-make.exe[2]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/rober/CLionProjects/test/cmake-build-debug'
C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f CMakeFiles\test.dir\build.make CMakeFiles/test.dir/depend
mingw32-make.exe[3]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/rober/CLionProjects/test/cmake-build-debug'
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -E cmake_depends "MinGW Makefiles" C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug\CMakeFiles\test.dir\DependInfo.cmake --color=
Scanning dependencies of target test
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C:/MinGW/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f CMakeFiles\test.dir\build.make CMakeFiles/test.dir/build
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C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe   -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -g   -std=gnu90 -o CMakeFiles\test.dir\main.c.obj   -c C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\main.c

C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\main.c: In function 'main':
C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\main.c:17:19: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 2 has type 'char[23]' [-Wformat=]
     printf("\n0: %s", func().string);
                   ^
[100%] Linking C executable test.exe
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles\test.dir\link.txt --verbose=1
"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -E remove -f CMakeFiles\test.dir/objects.a
C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe cr CMakeFiles\test.dir/objects.a @CMakeFiles\test.dir\objects1.rsp
C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -g   -Wl,--whole-archive CMakeFiles\test.dir/objects.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -o test.exe -Wl,--out-implib,libtest.dll.a -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0 @CMakeFiles\test.dir\linklibs.rsp
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"C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2018.2.6\bin\cmake\win\bin\cmake.exe" -E cmake_progress_start C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\cmake-build-debug\CMakeFiles 0
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/Users/rober/CLionProjects/test/cmake-build-debug'

Build finished

Answer 1

Under C90 func().string is not an lvalue, and a non-lvalue array doesn't decay to a pointer.

The compiler is telling you just that:

C:\Users\rober\CLionProjects\test\main.c:17:19: warning: format '%s'
expects argument of type 'char *', but argument 2 has type 'char[23]' 
[-Wformat=]
     printf("\n0: %s", func().string);

This makes pretty much any use of func().string illegal. Don't do that.

I don't have a good edition of the C90 standard, but from what I gather, it should say something similar to this somewhere:

3.2.2.1 Lvalues and function designators

[...] an lvalue that has type "array of type T" is converted to an expression that has type "pointer to type T" that points to the initial member of the array object [...]