https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16351
--- Comment #42 from Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen at gmx dot de> --- (In reply to Jeffrey A. Law from comment #41) > Actually I think we want the concept of never returns NULL, both as an > attribute and as a property the compiler can discover by analysis. Given > that property on the return value, it can be propagated into call sites. ++ That sounds like very useful feature.