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Re: Null pointer check elimination
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:
| On Saturday 12 November 2005 18:32, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
| > | A "function-never-returns-null" attribute doesn't seem like
| > | the right mechanism. Instead, there should be a "never-null"
| > | attribute on pointer types. A "function-never-returns-null" is
| > | just a function whose return-type has the "never-null" attribute.
| >
| > We already have such mechanism: a reference type
|
| No. We've had this discussion before, and the conclusion what that reference
| types can be NULL.
|
| http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg01463.html
That simply means GCC got it wrong.
-- Gaby