To be safe you don’t break stuff (for example when these strings are changed in your code or further up), or crash you program (in case the returned string was literal for example like "hello I'm a literal string" and you start to edit it), make a copy of the returned string.
You could use strdup() for this, but read the small print. Or you can of course create your own version if it’s not there on your platform.
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