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Looks like it [0]. The author had to use inline assembly, so compiler couldn't enforce it and failed to compile. They had to add an annotation to say that the code after the assembly was unreachable. [0] http://os.phil-opp.com/better-exception-messages.html#intrinsics-unreachable http://os.phil-opp.com/better-exception-messages.html#intrin...