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Thanks for the review, I've gone ahead and committed in 
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Comment at: clang/lib/CodeGen/CGCall.cpp:2515
+                } else {
+                  AI->addAttr(llvm::Attribute::NonNull);
+                }
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rjmccall wrote:
> aaron.ballman wrote:
> > rjmccall wrote:
> > > aaron.ballman wrote:
> > > > rjmccall wrote:
> > > > > Isn't the old logic still correct?  If the element size is static and 
> > > > > the element count is positive, the argument is dereferenceable out to 
> > > > > their product; otherwise it's nonnull if null is the zero value and 
> > > > > we aren't semantically allowing that to be a valid pointer.
> > > > I was questioning this -- I didn't think the old logic was correct 
> > > > because it checks that the array is in address space 0, but the 
> > > > nonnull-ness should apply regardless of address space (I think). The 
> > > > point about valid null pointers still stands, though. Am I 
> > > > misunderstanding the intended address space behavior?
> > > I believe LLVM's `nonnull` actually always means nonzero.  `static` just 
> > > tells us that the address is valid, so (1) we always have to suppress the 
> > > attribute under `NullPointerIsValid` and (2) we have the suppress the 
> > > attribute if the null address is nonzero, because the zero address could 
> > > still be valid in that case.  The way the existing code is implementing 
> > > the latter seems excessively conservative about non-standard address 
> > > spaces, since we might know that they still use a zero null pointer; more 
> > > importantly, it seems wrong in the face of an address space that lowers 
> > > to LLVM's address space 0 but doesn't use a zero null pointer.  You can 
> > > call `getTargetInfo().getNullPointerValue(ETy.getAddressSpace()) == 0` to 
> > > answer this more correctly.
> > Ah, I see! Thank you for the explanation -- I wasn't aware that null could 
> > be a valid address in other address spaces, but that makes sense.
> (the zero representation, not null)
Agreed -- sorry for being imprecise when it mattered.


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