From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Don't return void types from void functions.
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 22:20:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c98dur$pd5$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 40B43913.7010207@pobox.com
Followup to: <40B43913.7010207@pobox.com>
By author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > diff -Nru a/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c
> > --- a/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c 2004-05-25 23:06:49 -07:00
> > +++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c 2004-05-25 23:06:49 -07:00
> > @@ -1806,7 +1806,7 @@
> >
> > static void __exit olympic_pci_cleanup(void)
> > {
> > - return pci_unregister_driver(&olympic_driver) ;
> > + pci_unregister_driver(&olympic_driver) ;
> > }
>
>
> Can we make gcc error out when it finds this?
>
What's wrong with it? Seriously... "return foo();" is the closest
thing to a tailcall syntax as C/C++ has, and I've always considered it
a Total Fscking Pain in The Ass[TM] that it somehow thinks functions
returning void should have a different syntax than all other functions.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-28 22:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200405260606.i4Q66dXB023475@hera.kernel.org>
2004-05-26 6:28 ` Don't return void types from void functions Jeff Garzik
2004-05-26 8:38 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-05-26 8:59 ` Paweł Sikora
2004-05-28 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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