Re: RFC: Support non-standard extension (call via casted function pointer)

To: Michael Karcher <debian@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>, Debian m68k <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Support non-standard extension (call via casted function pointer)
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:39:50 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 56A69F52.4060108@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> (Michael Karcher's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:18:58 +0100")
References: <[🔎] 56A697DE.5090207@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <[🔎] 871t95mhyo.fsf@igel.home> <[🔎] 56A69F52.4060108@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

Michael Karcher <debian@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> *can't* (forward-)declare a function without fixing the return type.

What does "fixing the return type" mean in the context of lying to the
compiler?

Andreas.

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