Once upon a time I had to figure out an issue where I forgot a `return` statement at the end of a non-`void` function, so the C++ compiler happily omitted both RETs for some reason and let the program go straight into illegal instructions. That was fun to debug (not fun, I practically had to single-step through the entire program) because every time this happened the debugger was incredibly confused about what the fuck was going on and nothing made any sense.
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It makes no sense to me that C and C++ didn't require a diagnostic for this, rather you hit UB.
I know that at least modern GCC and Clang will warn and/or error for this (not sure which as I use -Werror), but still, this is pointless UB to have.
And no, in this case I don't buy that a C90 compiler would have been unable to check this.