diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 780f60c..9394aaf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ repeated conditional subpattern, and can be found to be anchored if the minimum
 quantifier is one or more. I can't see much use for a repeated anchored
 pattern, but the behaviour is now consistent.
 
+41. Minor addition to pcre2_jit_compile.c to avoid static analyzer complaint 
+(for an event that could never occur but you had to have external information
+to know that).
+
 
 Version 10.31 12-February-2018
 ------------------------------
diff --git a/src/pcre2_jit_compile.c b/src/pcre2_jit_compile.c
index 4bb24e9..32e985b 100644
--- a/src/pcre2_jit_compile.c
+++ b/src/pcre2_jit_compile.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ and semantics are as close as possible to those of the Perl 5 language.
 
                        Written by Philip Hazel
      Original API code Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge
-          New API code Copyright (c) 2016-2017 University of Cambridge
+          New API code Copyright (c) 2016-2018 University of Cambridge
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -5901,6 +5901,8 @@ for (i = 0; i < 32; i++)
     }
   }
 
+if (len == 0) return FALSE;  /* Should never occur, but stops analyzers complaining. */
+
 i = 0;
 j = 0;