Lifetime of std::span

A std::span is just a view onto an array, right? It’s new in C++20, so at work-work where we try to be modern where possible, I wrote an access function for a static array, and had it return a std::span object.

Ha ha, welcome to UB.

#include <span>

static int my_integers[] = { 1, 2, 332 };
std::span<int> get_integers() { return my_integers; }

int main()
{
        auto oneIt = get_integers().begin();
        auto twoIt = ++(get_integers().begin());

        return *oneIt + *twoIt;
}

The iterator oneIt is obtained from a std::span object whose lifetime ends at the end of the full expression. There does not seem to be any language tying the iterator to the lifetime of the underlying contiguous objects, so the iterator is invalid later.

Everything I’ve tried seems to work, but that’s the whole problem with UB.