Is returning void valid code?

Question

I found out that the following code gets accepted by Visual C++ 2008 and GCC 4.3 compilers:

void foo()
{

}

void bar()
{
  return foo();
}

Answer 1

This is valid and can be quite useful for example to create cleaner code in situations when you want to do some error handling before returning:

void ErrRet(int code, char* msg)
{
   // code logging/handling error
}
void f()
{
   if (...) return ErrRet(5, "Error Message !");
   // code continue
}