Cygdrop from recent cygutils-extra crashes (only) after printing help text:

$ cygdrop
Usage: cygdrop [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARG ...]

Group options
   -l        Disable local administrator group [default]
...
   -v        Verbose output, lists groups and privileges changed.
             Repeat to list all groups and privileges.

*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted (core dumped)


The root of the problem is a usually harmless bug introduced in 2010. A 
function return type was declared as 'int' instead of 'void':
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=cygwin-apps/cygutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=517cf61

Newer g++ may then optimize away the function epilogue after inline 
expansion. Here is a minimal testcase:

$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 10.2.0
...

$ cat test.cc
void f();

static int g()
{
   f();
}

void h()
{
   g();
}

$ g++ -S -O test.cc
test.cc: In function ‘int g()’:
test.cc:6:1: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void 
[-Wreturn-type]
     6 | }
       | ^

$ c++filt < test.s
         .file   "test.cc"
         .text
         .globl  h()
         .def    h();    .scl    2;      .type   32; .endef
         .seh_proc       h()
h():
.LFB1:
         subq    $40, %rsp
         .seh_stackalloc 40
         .seh_endprologue
         call    f()
         nop
         .seh_endproc
         .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 10.2.0"
         .def    f();    .scl    2;      .type   32; .endef



Problem and -Wreturn-type do not occur if compiled as a C program:

$ g++ -xc -S -O test.cc

$ cat test.s
...
h:
         subq    $40, %rsp
         .seh_stackalloc 40
         .seh_endprologue
         call    f
         nop
         addq    $40, %rsp
         ret
         .seh_endproc
...


The problem also occurs with 32-bit Cygwin g++ and with current 
MinGW-w64-g++ 32/64-bit.

Unfortunately GCC upstream has already set a related bug report to INVALID:
  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96181
I disagree...

Cygport should possibly add '-Werror=return-type' to C++ defaults.


Patch for cygutils is attached.

Regards,
Christian