Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> writes: > Annotating functions that do not return with the noreturn attribute > (which is understood by both gcc and clang) prevents static analyzers > from generating false positives (internal_error is used to terminate > the process and is used extensively in error handling code paths). > > Remove the return statement that was placed there to appease the > compiler. Functions annotated with noreturn are not supposed to return > any values. > This patch looks OK (although I don't know the pragma details). Do you (or anyone) happen to know why _internal_error is an int function? Making it void wouldn't fix the problem with static analzers, but having an int function without a return looks ugly to me. d