On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:18:32AM -0700, Paul Koning wrote:
> The other day there was a request for a compile error if you do:
> 
>     int foo(void) { }
> 
> and the answer was "the standard says that this is legal -- after all,
> you can say 'foo();' so the return value isn't used and it doesn't
> matter that it's missing".

I think that the right answer to requests like this is to recommend
the use of -Wall, which will produce

foo.c:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

Those who want it to be an error can say "-Wall -Werror".

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