[llvm-dev] Return on nocapture pointer

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

I believe it is invalid. It's making a copy that outlives the call. I don't
think functionattrs will infer this, for example.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Piotr Padlewski via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a question about semantics of nocapture attribute:
> "This indicates that the callee does not make any copies of the pointer
> that outlive the callee itself. "
> Is returing a pointer considered outliving callee? For example is this
> code valid:
>
> define i8* @foo(i8* nocapture %p)
>   ret i8* %p
> }
>
> The documentation also mention that " This is not a valid attribute for
> return values.", but I interpret that it is is about this case:
>
> declare i8* nocapture @bar(i8* %p)
>
> Piotr
>
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