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Add `dead_on_return` attribute, which is meant to be taken advantage by the frontend, and states that the memory pointed to by the argument is dead upon function return. As with `byval`, it is supposed to be used for passing aggregates by value. The difference lies in the ABI: `byval` implies that the pointer is explicitly passed as argument to the callee (during codegen the copy is emitted as per byval contract), whereas a `dead_on_return`-marked argument implies that the copy already exists in the IR, is located at a specific stack offset within the caller, and this memory will not be read further by the caller upon callee return – or otherwise poison, if read before being written. RFC: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-dead-on-return-attribute/86871.
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