"no return statement" warning weirdness

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.co.uk
Thu Mar 18 20:55:00 GMT 2004


Chris Lattner wrote:-

> >IMO we should warn whether implicit int or not.
> 
> I speculate that this is attempting to avoid warning in cases like this:
> 
> foo() {}
> 
> ... Where the function defaults to returning int, though the programmer
> may never use the return value.  I think that it's reasonable to avoid
> warning on that function, but it is still important to warn on the
> slightly different:
> 
> int foo() {}

Why?  If it's a void function it only takes another 5 keystrokes to make
it so.

Neil.



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