Per Bothner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- which morally is implemented as a pointer type. -- Gaby