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From: cmf@cisunx.UUCP (Carl M. Fongheiser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: YALF (yet another lint foulup)
Message-ID: <14672@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 01:41:22 GMT
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In article <9228@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <11245@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>... since ANSI C doesn't distinguish void-valued functions
>>from non-returning functions.
>
>What do you mean?  Function value type and whether a function returns
>are orthogonal.

Really?  I'm having a good deal of difficulty thinking of any reason why
one would declare a function which never returns as anything other than
void.

				Carl Fongheiser
				University of Pittsburgh
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