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On an argument, this attribute indicates that the function does not write
through this pointer argument, even though it may write to the memory that
the pointer points to.
+``argmemonly``
+ This attribute indicates that the only memory accesses inside function are
+ loads and stores from objects pointed to by its pointer-typed arguments,
+ with arbitrary offsets. Or in other words, all memory operations in the
+ function can refer to memory only using pointers based on its function
+ arguments.
+ Note that ``argmemonly`` can be used together with ``readonly`` attribute
+ in order to specify that function reads only from its arguments.
``returns_twice``
This attribute indicates that this function can return twice. The C
``setjmp`` is an example of such a function. The compiler disables
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