Thread: TCHAR* passing

I call a function AreaName() which returns a TCHAR*. The problem is the return value is garbage - squares and Chinese characters. The function t.Areaname() comes from a static library. I checked the memory address AreaName points to on both sides and that is the same value. I think this must be a Unicode error, but since I'm using the same type, I'm a not sure what I should try. Thank you in advance -Patrick

Code:

//my code
const TCHAR* AreaName; //should be something like "Denver"
AreaName = t.AreaName(); //garbage comes back 

//this compiles into a library 
virtual const TCHAR* AreaName() const			
{
return m_EffectLoc.m_Area.m_AreaName;  //Using the debugger I can see this data is good
}

struct AreaT
{
TCHAR m_AreaName[STR_SIZE_64];
};