https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96054
--- Comment #2 from H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor dot com> --- I agree, my naming was very poor. Perhaps "panic" or "abort" would work; those are classic names in software use for this. Another case of a function that could be so attributed would be the function typically called __assert_failed(). It is probably worth noting that all the ones I can think of should be noreturn functions. I don't know if that is truly inherent, but personally I cannot think of a case where it would not be.