The comment explains it: emitError does not necessarily exit the compilation
process, and then using NoRegister leads to assertions later on.
This generates incorrect code, of course, but the user should know to not use
the result when an error has been emitted.
It would be nice to have a test-case for this inside the LLVM repository,
but llc exits on error. shader-db tests trigger the underlying issue at least
on Tonga.