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@@ -387,8 +387,10 @@ function and awaits the returned promise to complete. It will then check that
the promise is not rejected.
If `block` is a function and it throws an error synchronously,
-`assert.doesNotReject()` will return a rejected Promise with that error without
-checking the error handler.
+`assert.doesNotReject()` will return a rejected Promise with that error. If the
+function does not return a promise, `assert.doesNotReject()` will return a
+rejected Promise with an [`ERR_INVALID_RETURN_VALUE`][] error. In both cases the
+error handler is skipped.
Please note: Using `assert.doesNotReject()` is actually not useful because there
is little benefit by catching a rejection and then rejecting it again. Instead,
@@ -929,8 +931,10 @@ function and awaits the returned promise to complete. It will then check that
the promise is rejected.
If `block` is a function and it throws an error synchronously,
-`assert.rejects()` will return a rejected Promise with that error without
-checking the error handler.
+`assert.rejects()` will return a rejected Promise with that error. If the
+function does not return a promise, `assert.rejects()` will return a rejected
+Promise with an [`ERR_INVALID_RETURN_VALUE`][] error. In both cases the error
+handler is skipped.
Besides the async nature to await the completion behaves identically to
[`assert.throws()`][].
@@ -1138,6 +1142,7 @@ assert.throws(throwingFirst, /Second$/);
Due to the confusing notation, it is recommended not to use a string as the
second argument. This might lead to difficult-to-spot errors.
+[`ERR_INVALID_RETURN_VALUE`]: errors.html#errors_err_invalid_return_value
[`Class`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Classes
[`Error.captureStackTrace`]: errors.html#errors_error_capturestacktrace_targetobject_constructoropt
[`Error`]: errors.html#errors_class_error