does your compiler / lint catch infinite recursion ?

[John]

Does anybody know if there are any compilers that warn of infinite
recursion ( a very simple case )

like

void foo( int a )
{
return foo( a );
}

gcc does not seem to and lint does not seem to catch it either.

 

[Victor Bazarov]

Does anybody know if there are any compilers that warn of infinite
recursion ( a very simple case )

like

void foo( int a )
{
return foo( a );
}

gcc does not seem to and lint does not seem to catch it either.

Visual C++ issues the warning C4717 when compiling this:

void foo(int a)
{
foo(a);
}

int main()
{
foo(42);
}

V