2012/4/30 Michael Goffioul <michael.goffi...@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> <jord...@octave.org> wrote:
>> On 29 April 2012 19:42, Claudio Freire <klaussfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Here[0] is a patch that makes octave-forge build under gcc 4.7 and
>>> another[1] for openmpi 1.5.
>>
>> Thanks. I looked at your modifications, and they mostly seem safe for
>> earlier versions of gcc. Did 4.7 now decide that no return in non-void
>> functions is now an error, not just a warning? Is this standard
>> behaviour? I'm just curious.
>
> MSVC has been reporting that kind of error for years. I always have to
> "fix" these to make code compilable. Personally, I'd indeed consider a
> non-void function without a return statement as an error.

Sure, of course it should be fixed[1], I'm just curious to know why
gcc ever allowed this. For example, is it allowed behaviour in C, and
gcc's C++ implementation inherited this?

- Jordi G. H.

[1] and why didn't you submit a patch yourself, after all these years? :-(

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