KT-6646, KT-10482:

when a method (or a property getter) returns Nothing, emit
  ACONST_NULL
  ATHROW
after a call so that class files verifier knows that this is an exit point in a method.
Note that if an inline method returning Nothing throws an exception explicitly
(or via a chain of inline methods), this code will be deleted by DCE.

compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/ExpressionCodegen.java

@@ -2420,6 +2420,12 @@ public class ExpressionCodegen extends KtVisitor<StackValue, StackValue> impleme
         }
 
         callGenerator.genCall(callableMethod, resolvedCall, defaultMaskWasGenerated, this);
+
+        KotlinType returnType = resolvedCall.getResultingDescriptor().getReturnType();
+        if (returnType != null && KotlinBuiltIns.isNothing(returnType)) {
+            v.aconst(null);
+            v.athrow();
+        }
     }
 
     @NotNull

compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/StackValue.java

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import kotlin.jvm.functions.Function1;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Contract;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.KotlinBuiltIns;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.builtins.PrimitiveType;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.codegen.intrinsics.IntrinsicMethods;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.codegen.intrinsics.JavaClassProperty;
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ import org.jetbrains.kotlin.resolve.jvm.jvmSignature.JvmMethodParameterKind;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.resolve.jvm.jvmSignature.JvmMethodParameterSignature;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.resolve.scopes.receivers.ReceiverValue;
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.synthetic.SamAdapterExtensionFunctionDescriptor;
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.types.KotlinType;
 import org.jetbrains.org.objectweb.asm.Label;
 import org.jetbrains.org.objectweb.asm.Type;
 import org.jetbrains.org.objectweb.asm.commons.InstructionAdapter;
@@ -1086,6 +1088,12 @@ public abstract class StackValue {
             else {
                 getter.genInvokeInstruction(v);
                 coerce(getter.getReturnType(), type, v);
+
+                KotlinType returnType = descriptor.getReturnType();
+                if (returnType != null && KotlinBuiltIns.isNothing(returnType)) {
+                    v.aconst(null);
+                    v.athrow();
+                }
             }
         }