Re: void vs void* (philosophical question)

Chris Torek wrote:
[...]
(If I were in charge of things, I would probably make "void" an
ordinary object type whose size is zero, so that sizeof(void) ==
0; its value, upon conversion to any other scalar type, would be
zero. Thus:
[...]

How would you handle functions which don't return anything?

void foo()
{
void retval;

... do stuff ...

return retval;
}

And how would you resolve the use of an uninitialized variable for
the return?

Would you allow comparing voids, and void arithmetic?

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