C28196

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warning C28196: The requirement is not satisfied. (The expression does not evaluate to true.)

This warning indicates that the function prototype for the function being analyzed has a __notnull, __null or __drv_valueIs on an _Out_ parameter or the return value, but the value returned is inconsistent with that annotation.