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From: rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Missing warning in GCC 1.33 - returned incomplete type
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Date: 20 Feb 89 00:45:09 GMT
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It seems that GCC will warn you if you declare a function which
takes an argument which is a pointer to an incomplete type, but
not if you declare a function which *returns* a pointer to an
incomplete type, i.e.

struct incomplete;

int gimme_warning (struct incomplete *);	/* gives warning */

struct incomplete *strange_return (void);	/* no warning */

It seems to me that the same thing should happen in either case.

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