Compiling the VM

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Mar 15 05:05:07 UTC 2002


"Todd Blanchard" <todd.blanchard at cacheon.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> I'm playing with the VM source code - trying to get it to compile
> cleanly just now.
> 
> There are a lot of functions declared as returning int with no return
> statement in them.
Yup. 'fraid so.
> 
> Is there a reason for this?
Laziness.
>  Shouldn't these be void functions?
Yup.
> 
> Just trying to understand.
Aren't we all, Todd, aren't we all.... as a wise person once said, "why
do lions?"

tim
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