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Re: Enable -Wreturn-type by default ?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian dot org>
- Cc: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>, Dodji Seketeli <dodji at seketeli dot org>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:34:52 +0000
- Subject: Re: Enable -Wreturn-type by default ?
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Actually, I wonder if -Wmissing-return should not be included by default ...
I don't think that's appropriate for C; control reaching the end of a
function is quite likely to mean simply that the user is writing C90 / C99
code without annotations for noreturn functions (so control can't actually
reach the end of the function but GCC can't tell that).
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Joseph S. Myers
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