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Date:      Sat, 13 Jul 2002 01:07:53 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        e0026813@stud3.tuwien.ac.at
Cc:        behanna@zbzoom.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GCC/header-related regressions on -STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020713.010753.51683482.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020713003456.GB238@frog.fafoe>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0207111354090.22305-100000@pulcherrima.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20020712201311.T39095-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> <20020713003456.GB238@frog.fafoe>

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            Stefan Farfeleder <e0026813@stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
: On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:13:50PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
: > 
: > > standards/40084 and standards/40402 constitute significant regressions
: > > on -STABLE, which definitely should be fixed for 4.6.1-RELEASE.

Chances are good that 4.6.1-RELEASE won't fix something so trivial.  I
have excellent patches to the PCCARD system that fix real problems for
people that won't be included.  Chances are good that 4.7-RELEASE will
fix them, however, (both the pccard issue and the compiler issues).

: > > Having three-line C++ programs like the following
: > >   #include <iostream>
: > >   #include <string>
: > >   int main() { }
: > > issue three(!) warnings with g++ -pedantic is A Very Bad Thing[TM],
: > > especially on -STABLE.
: > 
: >     Should it not at least gripe that there's no return statement in a
: > non-void function?
: 
: Both C++ and C99 treat main() specially: leaving the function's scope
: without an explicit "return"-statement means that 0 is returned to the
: implementation.

True, but in C90 (and definitely in K&R)

      int main() { }

was more or less the same as:

      int main() { return (rand()); }

since whatever was in the magic register that returned the value for
the function was what got returned :-).  There's a lot of SYS V code
that had return (0); added to the end of most of the main functions
because of this.

Warner

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