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A function defined with a return type must include an expression containing the value to be returned.

When a function returns a value, the value is returned via a return statement to the caller of the function, after being implicitly converted to the return type of the function in which it is defined. The following code fragment shows a function definition including the return statement:

int add(int i, int j)

{

  return i + j; // return statement

}