bpo-31338 (#3374)

* Add Py_UNREACHABLE() as an alias to abort().
* Use Py_UNREACHABLE() instead of assert(0)
* Convert more unreachable code to use Py_UNREACHABLE()
* Document Py_UNREACHABLE() and a few other macros.
diff --git a/Objects/unicodeobject.c b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
index c4d93fc..bb1c083 100644
--- a/Objects/unicodeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/unicodeobject.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@
         BLOOM_UPDATE(Py_UCS4, mask, ptr, len);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
     return mask;
 
@@ -869,8 +869,7 @@
         else
             return ucs4lib_rfind_char((Py_UCS4 *) s, size, ch);
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        return -1;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 }
 
@@ -1520,8 +1519,7 @@
                     );
             }
             else {
-                assert(0);
-                return -1;
+                Py_UNREACHABLE();
             }
         }
         else {
@@ -2079,7 +2077,7 @@
 #endif
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0 && "Impossible state");
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     return unicode_result(unicode);
@@ -2172,8 +2170,7 @@
     case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
         return 0x10000;
     default:
-        assert(0 && "invalid kind");
-        return MAX_UNICODE;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 }
 
@@ -2317,8 +2314,7 @@
     case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
         return ucs4lib_find_max_char(startptr, endptr);
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        return 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 }
 
@@ -4068,7 +4064,7 @@
                     *w = *four_bytes;
 
                 if (w > wchar_end) {
-                    assert(0 && "Miscalculated string end");
+                    Py_UNREACHABLE();
                 }
             }
             *w = 0;
@@ -4120,7 +4116,7 @@
 #endif
             }
             else {
-                assert(0 && "This should never happen.");
+                Py_UNREACHABLE();
             }
         }
     }
@@ -5134,7 +5130,7 @@
 #endif
         if (ch > 0xFF) {
 #if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
-            assert(0);
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
 #else
             assert(ch > 0xFFFF && ch <= MAX_UNICODE);
             /*  compute and append the two surrogates: */
@@ -5187,7 +5183,7 @@
 
     switch (kind) {
     default:
-        assert(0);
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     case PyUnicode_1BYTE_KIND:
         /* the string cannot be ASCII, or PyUnicode_UTF8() would be set */
         assert(!PyUnicode_IS_ASCII(unicode));
@@ -9294,7 +9290,7 @@
             result = ucs4lib_find_slice(buf1, len1, buf2, len2, start, end);
             break;
         default:
-            assert(0); result = -2;
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
     }
     else {
@@ -9312,7 +9308,7 @@
             result = ucs4lib_rfind_slice(buf1, len1, buf2, len2, start, end);
             break;
         default:
-            assert(0); result = -2;
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
     }
 
@@ -9386,8 +9382,7 @@
             (Py_UCS4 *) thousands_sep_data, thousands_sep_len);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        return -1;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
     if (unicode != NULL && thousands_sep_kind != kind) {
         if (thousands_sep_kind < kind)
@@ -9465,7 +9460,7 @@
             );
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0); result = 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     if (kind2 != kind1)
@@ -9881,8 +9876,7 @@
         memcpy(outdata, tmp, sizeof(Py_UCS4) * newlength);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        break;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
   leave:
     PyMem_FREE(tmp);
@@ -10105,7 +10099,7 @@
             for (; i_ < (length); ++i_, ++to_) *to_ = (value); \
             break; \
         } \
-        default: assert(0); \
+        default: Py_UNREACHABLE(); \
         } \
     } while (0)
 
@@ -10229,8 +10223,7 @@
             PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(string), keepends);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        list = 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
     return list;
 }
@@ -10275,8 +10268,7 @@
                 PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self), maxcount
                 );
         default:
-            assert(0);
-            return NULL;
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
 
     if (PyUnicode_READY(substring) == -1)
@@ -10367,8 +10359,7 @@
                 PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH(self), maxcount
                 );
         default:
-            assert(0);
-            return NULL;
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
 
     if (PyUnicode_READY(substring) == -1)
@@ -10434,8 +10425,7 @@
     case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
         return ucs4lib_find(buf1, len1, buf2, len2, offset);
     }
-    assert(0);
-    return -1;
+    Py_UNREACHABLE();
 }
 
 static Py_ssize_t
@@ -10453,8 +10443,7 @@
     case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND:
         return ucs4lib_count(sbuf, slen, buf1, len1, maxcount);
     }
-    assert(0);
-    return 0;
+    Py_UNREACHABLE();
 }
 
 static void
@@ -10909,7 +10898,7 @@
             COMPARE(Py_UCS1, Py_UCS4);
             break;
         default:
-            assert(0);
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
         break;
     }
@@ -10928,7 +10917,7 @@
             COMPARE(Py_UCS2, Py_UCS4);
             break;
         default:
-            assert(0);
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
         break;
     }
@@ -10956,12 +10945,12 @@
             break;
         }
         default:
-            assert(0);
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
         break;
     }
     default:
-        assert(0);
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     if (len1 == len2)
@@ -11285,8 +11274,7 @@
         result = ucs4lib_find(buf1, len1, buf2, len2, 0) != -1;
         break;
     default:
-        result = -1;
-        assert(0);
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     if (kind2 != kind1)
@@ -11511,7 +11499,7 @@
             );
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0); iresult = 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     result = PyLong_FromSsize_t(iresult);
@@ -12985,8 +12973,7 @@
         out = ucs4lib_partition(str_obj, buf1, len1, sep_obj, buf2, len2);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        out = 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     if (kind2 != kind1)
@@ -13043,8 +13030,7 @@
         out = ucs4lib_rpartition(str_obj, buf1, len1, sep_obj, buf2, len2);
         break;
     default:
-        assert(0);
-        out = 0;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     if (kind2 != kind1)
@@ -13627,8 +13613,7 @@
     case PyUnicode_2BYTE_KIND: maxchar = 0xffff; break;
     case PyUnicode_4BYTE_KIND: maxchar = 0x10ffff; break;
     default:
-        assert(0 && "invalid kind");
-        return -1;
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     return _PyUnicodeWriter_PrepareInternal(writer, 0, maxchar);
@@ -13770,7 +13755,7 @@
         break;
     }
     default:
-        assert(0);
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     }
 
     writer->pos += len;
@@ -14204,7 +14189,7 @@
 
     switch (type) {
     default:
-        assert(!"'type' not in [diuoxX]");
+        Py_UNREACHABLE();
     case 'd':
     case 'i':
     case 'u':
@@ -14362,7 +14347,7 @@
         switch(type)
         {
             default:
-                assert(0 && "'type' not in [diuoxX]");
+                Py_UNREACHABLE();
             case 'd':
             case 'i':
             case 'u':
@@ -15373,8 +15358,7 @@
     for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
         s = PyList_GET_ITEM(keys, i);
         if (PyUnicode_READY(s) == -1) {
-            assert(0 && "could not ready string");
-            fprintf(stderr, "could not ready string\n");
+            Py_UNREACHABLE();
         }
         switch (PyUnicode_CHECK_INTERNED(s)) {
         case SSTATE_NOT_INTERNED: