Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 46606: /trunk/epan/wmem/ /trunk/epan/wmem/: wmem_core.c

[Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/18/2012 11:43 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 5:08 PM, eapache@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=46606
User: eapache
> > Date: 2012/12/18 05:08 PM
> >
> > Log: Try to fix windows builds - MSVC doesn't like
> > g_assert_not_reached() ?
>
>
> MSVC doesn't understand that it never returns.  I don't know whether
> there's a way to tell MSVC that a function never returns,

There is: Wireshark uses it in a few places:

See #define MSVC_NORETURN in config.h