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Re: Function calls

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On 2023-10-04, Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   A recent draft of the C specification says about "return":
>
>|A return statement terminates execution of the current
>|function and returns control to its caller.
>
>   . There's also a section "Function calls" in a recent draft.
>   I expect that this section says something similar, to the effect that
>   during the evaluation of a function call, control is transferred to
>   the called function, but I was not able to find such wording!

6.2.4 Storage duration of objects, paragraph 6, has:

  (Entering an enclosed block or calling a function suspends, but does not
  end, execution of the current block.)

The parentheses likely acknowledge that the requirement doesn't
belong in a section about storage duration.

It doesn't seem to be repeated anywhere else. It is not defined what
"entering" means.

ISO 2382-1 itself uses "enter" in multiple places without defining it.

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