+/* Use the GCC warn_unused_result attribute to check that all return values
+ * are propagated correctly. On other compilers and gcc before 3.4.0 just
+ * ignore the annotation.
+ */
+#if !defined(__GNUC__) || ( __GNUC__ < 3) || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4)
+ #define checkreturn
+#else
+ #define checkreturn __attribute__((warn_unused_result))
+#endif
+
+/**************************************
+ * Declarations internal to this file *
+ **************************************/
+typedef bool (*pb_encoder_t)(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src) checkreturn;
+
+static bool checkreturn buf_write(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_byte_t *buf, size_t count);
+static bool checkreturn encode_array(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *pData, size_t count, pb_encoder_t func);
+static bool checkreturn encode_field(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *pData);
+static bool checkreturn default_extension_encoder(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_extension_t *extension);
+static bool checkreturn encode_extension_field(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *pData);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_varint(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_uvarint(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_svarint(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_fixed32(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_fixed64(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_bytes(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_string(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_submessage(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);
+static bool checkreturn pb_enc_fixed_length_bytes(pb_ostream_t *stream, const pb_field_t *field, const void *src);