[llvm-dev] Return on nocapture pointer (original) (raw)

Piotr Padlewski via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Apr 28 08:22:13 PDT 2017


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)

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