Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2008 13:00:16 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 09/10] misc: fix returning void-valued expression warnings |
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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:43:50PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> I don't know who invented sparse, but I like this form of return. > 1 - It saves me the curly brackets and extra return line. But mainly > 2 - It is a programing statement that says: "Me here I'm an equivalent > to that other call". So if in the future that inner function starts > to return, say, an error value, with the first style the compiler will > error. But with the second style the new error return will be silently > ignored. So these are not equivalent replacements. The former is a much > stronger bond between the caller and the callie.
3. 6.8.6.4(1): A return statement with an expression shall not appear in a function whose return type is void.
Write in C, please.
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