[PATCH 1/2] Annotate internal_error with the attribute noreturn

Justus Winter 4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Fri Sep 21 05:50:36 PDT 2012


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.

Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <4winter at informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
---
 util/error_util.c |    2 --
 util/error_util.h |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/util/error_util.c b/util/error_util.c
index 630d228..3cf353a 100644
--- a/util/error_util.c
+++ b/util/error_util.c
@@ -35,7 +35,5 @@ _internal_error (const char *format, ...)
     vfprintf (stderr, format, va_args);
 
     exit (1);
-
-    return 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/util/error_util.h b/util/error_util.h
index bb15822..24a644b 100644
--- a/util/error_util.h
+++ b/util/error_util.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  * Note that PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE comes from talloc.h
  */
 int
-_internal_error (const char *format, ...) PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE (1, 2);
+_internal_error (const char *format, ...) PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE (1, 2) __attribute__ ((noreturn));
 
 /* There's no point in continuing when we've detected that we've done
  * something wrong internally (as opposed to the user passing in a
-- 
1.7.10.4



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