Editing Return statement (section)

{{Short description|Statement which ends execution of a function and resumes in the main code}}
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In [[computer programming]], a '''return statement''' causes [[Execution (computing)|execution]] to leave the current [[subroutine]] and resume at the point in the code immediately after the instruction which called the subroutine, known as its '''return address'''. The return address is saved by the calling routine, today usually on the [[Process (computing)|process]]'s [[call stack]] or in a [[Register (computing)|register]]. Return statements in many [[programming language]]s allow a function to specify a '''return value''' to be passed back to the [[Source code|code]] that called the function.