what is the default return type of a function?

[lgn]

int or char or void? and how to check it?
thx!

[Andreas Kahari]

In article <bp***********@mail.cn99.com>, lgn wrote:

int or char or void? and how to check it?

You should always fully specify the return type of the functions
you write. In older standards, int was the default return type.
You check it by reading the standard document (not at my desk at
the moment so I can't quote it).
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Andreas Kähäri

[Dan Pop]

In <bp***********@mail.cn99.com> "lgn" <li*******@163.com> writes:

int or char or void? and how to check it?

By reading a C book.

Dan
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[Peter Nilsson]

"Martin Ambuhl" <ma*****@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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lgn wrote:

int or char or void? and how to check it?
thx!

Until 1999, a function without an explicit return type returned an int.
Since 1999, a function without an explicit return type is an error.

I think that's somewhat misleading. For the vast majority of C programmers,
implicit int is still a <cough>feature</cough> of our conforming compilers.
In other words, the C90 standard itself didn't change as a consequence of
C99. [Of course, sensible C programmers don't use implicit int without a
severe reason, e.g. gun to the head... :-)]

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Peter

[Dan Pop]

In <q5******************@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink .net> Martin Ambuhl <ma*****@earthlink.net> writes:

lgn wrote:

int or char or void? and how to check it?
thx!

Until 1999, a function without an explicit return type returned an int.
Since 1999, a function without an explicit return type is an error.

Compilers, however, haven't changed their behaviour on 1999-01-01.

Dan
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DESY Zeuthen, RZ group
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