gcc-20001027: Funny business with types on return

[Horst von Brand]

Red Hat 7, i686

The following gets the bogus warning:

/tmp/tst.c:7: warning: return from incompatible pointer type

struct {
   char name[8];
} a;

char *f()
{
     return &a.name;
}
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