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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TC2.0 bugfree ?
Message-ID: <4092@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 89 02:31:22 GMT
References: <537@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <2041@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <2041@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> jk0@sun.soe!clutx.clarkson.edu.UUCP writes:
}   I compiled something like this with Turbo C and 4.2 BSD cc:
[sample code omitted]
}	This is JUST an example, but TC didn't give me ANY warnings, but
}   4.2 BSD figured out that my simple return at the end of the function
}   was inconsistent.  >I wonder why they don't issue warnings like this?

Do you have warnings turned on (-w)?  I put the code thru TC2.0, and it
definitely warned that a value should be returned at the end of the function.
Adding a return; at the end of the function generates the different warning
that
   "Both return and return of a value used in function hello"

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