Return value from local scope?

Question

Bumped into some code like this in our code base... which made me worried.

int foo(int a); // Forward declaration.

int baz() {
    int result = {
         i         


        

Answer 1

You'd have to consult your compiler documentation. This construct is not allowed in standard C or standard C++.

It's trivial to clean this up however, e.g.

int baz()
{
    int result;
    {
         int a = dosomestuff();
         result = foo(a)? 0: -1;
    }
    return result;
}