------- Comment #5 from igodard at pacbell dot net 2005-11-22 04:05 ------- On the contrary, "const void" is a valid type, because the difference between "const void*" and "void*" preserved the typeless constness, which can be important in disambiguating templates. So if "const void" is valid as a pointer target, it is also (syntactically) valid as a function return type. It's just not meaningful, so EDG gives a warning.
Note that the gcc diagnostic is the same if the return type is int/const int, so it's nothing to do with "void". Ivan -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24983
