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Summary:
The attribute just means that there will be no regular return, it still
leaves room for exceptions to be thrown. It is easily verified: there
are no direct returns and the last statement is either a throw or a call
to abort.
Having the annotation helps static analyzers with this code from
Support/MemAlloc.h (slightly simplified):
LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_RETURNS_NONNULL inline void *safe_malloc(size_t Sz) {
void *Result = std::malloc(Sz);
if (Result == nullptr)
report_bad_alloc_error("Allocation failed");
return Result;
}
Were report_bad_alloc_error to return regularly, the function would
return nullptr, contradicting the attribute.
Reviewers: rnk, sepavloff, dblaikie, aaron.ballman
Reviewed By: dblaikie, aaron.ballman
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D81318