Re: Why is this diagnostic only reported with -pedantic?

[Marcin Dalecki <martin at dalecki dot de>]

On 2005-02-10, at 17:47, Tom Schutter wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:21 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Tom Schutter <tom@platte.com> writes:
> >
> > > In my opinion, the problem in baz() is just as bad as the problem in
> > > foo().
> >
> > Why do you think so?  What can go wrong this way (apart from being 
> > less
> > portable)?
> >
> > Andreas.
>
> It helps to imagine that these functions are 100 lines long instead of 
> 1
> line long.
>
> The programmer assumes that a value is being returned by foo(), because
> of the return(1).  The programmer also assumes that a value is being
> returned by baz(), because of the return(bar()).

void is the null value null set the nothing or zero. I think it's 
perfectly
logical to be able to return an entity which is empty where this is
specified. And from the pragmatical point of view - this may help 
automatically
generated code too.