diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c
index 56ec3ee5a0e..221f7101b21 100644
--- a/Modules/posixmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c
@@ -1259,7 +1259,8 @@ _Py_Sigset_Converter(PyObject *obj, void *addr)
     long signum;
     int overflow;
 
-    if (sigemptyset(mask)) {
+    // The extra parens suppress the unreachable-code warning with clang on MacOS
+    if (sigemptyset(mask) < (0)) {
         /* Probably only if mask == NULL. */
         PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError);
         return 0;