[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH, RFC] Replace assert(0) with abort() or cpu_abort()

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/15/2010 07:36 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Please don't tell me that user emulators make abort() return.  abort()
is declared __noreturn__, and the optimizer may well rely on that.

If the user programs make a "signal (SIGABRT, SIG_IGN)" call, I suppose 
abort() will return.

Paolo