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From: brad@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Brad Appleton)
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Subject: Re: Passing functions in C
Summary: minor fix in function for previous posting
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Date: 12 Mar 90 17:24:44 GMT
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OOPS -- I screwed up! the body of function "runAfunct" in my
previous post should have been "return (*myfunct)();" 
not "(*myfunct)();" without the return !!!

My most sincere apologies.

incidentally, that brings up an interesting point! If I have a function

   int foo() { int i; i = 10; }

without a specified return value, what will be returned when foo is called.
On one compiler I have used, it will return "10" because 10 was the last
"thing that was evaluated". I doubt that this is reliable however (is it?)

Should the compiler catch the "missing return" or is that left strictly
to lint?

advTHANXance

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