James Dennett <james.denn...@gmail.com> writes: > This appears to be a difference between C and C++. Unfortunate. > 6.6.3 [stmt.return]/2 of N2800 says "Flowing off the end of a function > is equivalent to a return with no value; this results in undefined > behavior in a value-returning function."
Since it's merely undefined behavior the compiler cannot reject it, because if the function is never called the undefined behavior does not happen. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."