YALF (yet another lint foulup)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <14672 at cisunx.UUCP> cmf at unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Carl M. Fongheiser) writes:
>In article <9228 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>>Function value type and whether a function returns are orthogonal.
>Really?  I'm having a good deal of difficulty thinking of any reason why
>one would declare a function which never returns as anything other than
>void.

Where did you get the word "never"?

	unsigned int Square(unsigned int n)
	{	extern void exit(int);
		extern void /*also nonreturning*/ Fatal(char*);
		if (n >= 0x80)
			Fatal("overflow in Square");
		return n*n;
	}

This, not entirely implausible, function sometimes returns and
sometimes doesn't.  But that has nothing to do with its type.