On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, William Killian wrote:

> But, how does the compiler know that?  How does it know that it can
> appropriately not generate any entrance and exit code?  Because you
> wrote the function like that?

Yes.  Just like any other construct, I expect the compiler to
interpret it the way I wrote it.

> What if that is an error and you would
> have wanted a warning about 'non reachable code' or 'function does not
> exit'.

I don't want that warning, but if I did, I would tell my compiler
vendor I think a necessary warning is missing from their compiler.
But I'm more interested in having the compiler not generate dead code
than having it generate superfluous warnings on standard constructs.

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