FOUND_ROWS() returns 1 if no statement has still been executed

Reading MySQL manual it's not clear what FOUND_ROWS() should return if no statement has been executed by the current session. However I think that 1 could be misleading.

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MariaDB [(none)]> select found_rows();
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1 row in set (0.00 sec)