[Sema]: minor improvements to unused expression result diagnostics

Previously we would emit a diagnostic in cases in which a throwing
function returning a structurally-unihabited type was called within an
optional try expression. Such cases can never produce a return value, so
suppress the existing diagnostic.

Author: jamieQ

lib/Sema/TypeCheckStmt.cpp

@@ -1823,9 +1823,14 @@ static bool isDiscardableType(Type type) {
   if (auto *expansion = type->getAs<PackExpansionType>())
     return isDiscardableType(expansion->getPatternType());
 
-  return (type->hasError() ||
-          type->isUninhabited() ||
-          type->lookThroughAllOptionalTypes()->isVoid());
+  if (type->hasError())
+    return true;
+
+  // Look through optionality and check if the type is either `Void` or
+  // 'structurally uninhabited'. Treat either as discardable.
+  auto nonOptionalType = type->lookThroughAllOptionalTypes();
+  return (nonOptionalType->isStructurallyUninhabited() ||
+          nonOptionalType->isVoid());
 }
 
 static void diagnoseIgnoredLiteral(ASTContext &Ctx, LiteralExpr *LE) {
@@ -1972,9 +1977,8 @@ void TypeChecker::checkIgnoredExpr(Expr *E) {
     }
   }
 
-  // If the result of this expression is of type "Never" or "()"
-  // (the latter potentially wrapped in optionals) then it is
-  // safe to ignore.
+  // If the result of this expression is either "structurally uninhabited" or
+  // `Void`, (potentially wrapped in optionals) then it is safe to ignore.
   if (isDiscardableType(valueE->getType()))
     return;
 

test/Sema/diag_implicit_discardable.swift

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+// RUN: %target-typecheck-verify-swift
+
+struct MyError: Error {}
+enum MyNever {}
+
+func never_throws() throws -> Never { throw MyError() }
+func uninhabited_throws() throws -> (Int, MyNever) { throw MyError () }
+func almost_uninhabited_throws() throws -> (Int, Never?) { throw MyError () }
+func int_throws() throws -> Int { throw MyError() }
+func void_throws() throws {}
+
+func maybe_never() -> Never? { nil }
+func maybe_uninhabited() -> (Int, MyNever)? { nil }
+func maybe_maybe_uninhabited() -> (Int, Never)?? { nil }
+func maybe_void() -> Void? { nil }
+func maybe_maybe_void() -> Void?? { nil }
+func looks_uninhabited_if_you_squint() -> (Int, Never?)? { nil }
+
+// MARK: - Tests
+
+func test_try() throws {
+  try never_throws()
+  try uninhabited_throws()
+  try almost_uninhabited_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of call to 'almost_uninhabited_throws()' is unused}}
+  try int_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of call to 'int_throws()' is unused}}
+  try void_throws()
+}
+
+func test_force_try() throws {
+  try! never_throws()
+  try! uninhabited_throws()
+  try! almost_uninhabited_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of call to 'almost_uninhabited_throws()' is unused}}
+  try! int_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of call to 'int_throws()' is unused}}
+  try! void_throws()
+}
+
+func test_optional_try() throws {
+  try? never_throws()
+  try? uninhabited_throws()
+  try? almost_uninhabited_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of 'try?' is unused}}
+  try? int_throws()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of 'try?' is unused}}
+  try? void_throws()
+}
+
+func test_implicitly_discardable() {
+  maybe_never()
+  maybe_uninhabited()
+  maybe_maybe_uninhabited()
+  maybe_void()
+  maybe_maybe_void()
+  looks_uninhabited_if_you_squint()
+  // expected-warning @-1 {{result of call to 'looks_uninhabited_if_you_squint()' is unused}}
+}
+
+// https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/85092
+
+func test_85092() {
+  struct MyError: Error {}
+
+  func f() throws -> Never {
+    throw MyError()
+  }
+
+  func g() {
+    try? f()
+  }
+}