Is there an SAL tag that says "this function never returns"?

svn path=/trunk/; revision=35978

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diff --git a/epan/except.h b/epan/except.h
index cacd7cbae2..f648806a20 100644
--- a/epan/except.h
+++ b/epan/except.h
@@ -90,6 +90,11 @@ extern void except_setup_try(struct except_stacknode *,
 	struct except_catch *, const except_id_t [], size_t);
 extern struct except_stacknode *except_pop(void);
 
+/*
+ * XXX - is there some way to annotate the G_GNUC_NORETURN functions
+ * usint the Standard Annotation Language so that Microsoft's static
+ * code analyzer knows they never return?
+ */
 /* public interface functions */
 extern int except_init(void);
 extern void except_deinit(void);