passing pointers at structs thru functions

Somehow this won't work, and I cannot figure out why.. !

Code:

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Environment* f;
f = fillEnvironmentF(e);

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Code:

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Environment* fillEnvironmentF(Environment* environment){
Environment fEnv;
Environment* nE = &fEnv;

[... here I fill up the struct fEnv, and that works]
       
return nE;
}

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My problem is that after the function-call my variable f doesn't point at anything, it's empty. I know that nE contains all I want.

fEnv is only valid for the duration of fillEnvironmentF().

Don't return a pointer to a stack variable.

gg

thank you!