Why there is no compiler error when return statement is not present?

Question

Unlike Java, in C/C++ following is allowed:

int* foo ()
{
  if(x)
    return p;
// what if control reaches here
}

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Answer 1

You can convert the warning into an error by using the following compiler options

-Wreturn-type -Werror=return-type.

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