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From: ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Speaking of hard to find errors...
Message-ID: <41388@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 06:56:46 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Here's a code fragment that can cause a lot of grief:

	struct spam {
		...
	}		/* Oops!  Forgot semicolon! */

	function()
	{
		...
	}

The programmer is letting the return type of the function default
to int, but the missing semicolon makes this instead become a
function that returns a struct spam.

Depending on how your compiler implements structure return,
results can range from callers of function getting wrong
return values to a trashed stack.

						Tim Smith