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Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM> writes:

|> For C89, I don't think it's legal though it may be reasonable to accept
|> as an extension; I don't know about C99.

The C99 standard is quite clear about this:

    6.8.6.4[#1] A return statement with an expression shall not appear in
    a function whose return type is void.  A return statement without an
    expression shall only appear in a function whose return type is void.

Andreas.

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