[llvm-dev] help me understand how nounwind attribute on functions works?

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
>
> What isn’t clear to me still is : why shouldn't this be transitive?
> In the example you’re showing, for a caller of f() in bar, what is the
> advantage of knowing that f() is nounwind if it an exception can still be
> thrown? What does it allow?
>

We know an exception cannot unwind out of f. An exception can be thrown
inside something that f calls, but it must be caught before it unwinds
beyond f.
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