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Re: Function calls

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

>   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!

AFAICT the C standard does not say explicitly that a function
call gives or transfers control to the function being called.
It has been pointed out that the standard does say that calling
a function suspends execution of the current block.

Considering those facts, do you think there is a problem with
the current wording used in the standard?  If you do, what
would you say the problem is, and why is it a problem?

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