GCC has a number of attributes that we can slap on functions.  For  
example, GCC's analysis of flow control will be greatly improved when  
we put __attribute(noreturn)__ on real_exception(), to tell GCC that  
it can't return, like exit().
I've done a ton of this for perl5, and can bring it on over.
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