add a ui test for the inference variable warning

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.rs b/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.rs
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index 00000000000..f2065ae6a1a
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+++ b/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+fn main() {
+    let data = std::ptr::null();
+    let _ = &data as *const *const ();
+    if data.is_null() {}
+}
diff --git a/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.stderr b/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.stderr
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index 00000000000..b0aa21cf5f5
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+++ b/src/test/ui/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.stderr
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+warning[E0619]: the type of this value must be known in this context
+  --> $DIR/inference-variable-behind-raw-pointer.rs:14:13
+   |
+14 |     if data.is_null() {}
+   |             ^^^^^^^
+   |
+   = note: this will be made into a hard error in a future version of the compiler
+