YALF (yet another lint foulup)

Carl M. Fongheiser cmf at cisunx.UUCP
Sat Dec 31 11:41:22 AEST 1988


In article <9228 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>In article <11245 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at 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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				cmf at unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu



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