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missing return statement on non void functions; just a warning?

I'm wondering what was the rationale that caused gcc to only have a
warning (disabled by default!!) to signal the following:

int a()
{}; // intentionally no statements

int main()
{
printf("%d", a());
return 0;
}

Function a() is declared as returning an int and the compiler doesn't
treat as an error the missing return statement.
I'm asking in this forum because I suspect that gcc crowd will just
tell me to read the standard. If I'm in the wrong forum, I hope to be
corrected.

Thank you,
Adrian
Feb 8 '08 #1
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macracan wrote:
I'm wondering what was the rationale that caused gcc to only have a
warning (disabled by default!!) to signal the following:

int a()
{}; // intentionally no statements

int main()
{
printf("%d", a());
return 0;
}

Function a() is declared as returning an int and the compiler doesn't
treat as an error the missing return statement.
I'm asking in this forum because I suspect that gcc crowd will just
tell me to read the standard. If I'm in the wrong forum, I hope to be
corrected.
You must have compiled it as C, it certainly won't compile as C++.

--
Ian Collins.
Feb 8 '08 #2

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