Re: shlib-calls-exit and the flex-generated function yy_fatal_error

["Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [121102 19:29]:
> I'm starting to think that we should drop this tag entirely.  There are a
> lot of legitimate reasons why shared libraries call exit(), plus there are
> legitimate reasons why shared library source includes a call to exit()
> that isn't reachable (something that Lintian cannot detect), such as this
> one.

Is this actually not reachable? This quite looks like a true-positive
(only taking into account what was written in this thread, without
looking at the actual code).

        Bernhard R. Link