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langref: Clarification to "nonnull" attribute #22053

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Clarification to "nonnull" attribute
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Expand Up @@ -3311,7 +3311,7 @@ void do_a_thing(struct Foo *foo) {
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One benefit to this is that functions which take pointers as arguments can
be annotated with the "nonnull" attribute - <code>__attribute__((nonnull))</code> in
be annotated with the "nonnull" attribute, which corresponds to the - <code>__attribute__((nonnull))</code> in
<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.0/gcc/Function-Attributes.html">GCC</a>.
The optimizer can sometimes make better decisions knowing that pointer arguments
cannot be null.
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