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2024-10-26


1541. cv void return types

Section: 8.7.4  [stmt.return]     Status: CD3     Submitter: Sean Hunt     Date: 2012-08-21

[Moved to DR at the April, 2013 meeting.]

According to 8.7.4 [stmt.return] paragraph 3,

A return statement with neither an expression nor a braced-init-list can be used only in functions that do not return a value, that is, a function with the return type void, a constructor (11.4.5 [class.ctor]), or a destructor (11.4.7 [class.dtor]).

However, paragraph 3 allows a return type of cv void in cases where the expression in the return statement has type void. Should paragraph 2 follow suit?

Proposed resolution (October, 2012):

Change 8.7.4 [stmt.return] paragraph 2 as follows:

A return statement with neither an expression nor a braced-init-list can be used only in functions that do not return a value, that is, a function with the return type cv void, a constructor (11.4.5 [class.ctor]), or a destructor (11.4.7 [class.dtor]). A return statement with an expression of non-void type...