Introduce `sym::dummy` and `Ident::dummy`.

The idea is to identify cases of symbols/identifiers that are not
expected to be used. There isn't a perfectly sharp line between "dummy"
and "not dummy", but I think it's useful nonetheless.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_attr_parsing/src/parser.rs b/compiler/rustc_attr_parsing/src/parser.rs
index f0cce26f4e2..a8a1460591c 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_attr_parsing/src/parser.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_attr_parsing/src/parser.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use rustc_ast::{AttrArgs, DelimArgs, Expr, ExprKind, LitKind, MetaItemLit, Norma
 use rustc_ast_pretty::pprust;
 use rustc_errors::DiagCtxtHandle;
 use rustc_hir::{self as hir, AttrPath};
-use rustc_span::symbol::{Ident, kw};
+use rustc_span::symbol::{Ident, kw, sym};
 use rustc_span::{ErrorGuaranteed, Span, Symbol};
 
 pub struct SegmentIterator<'a> {
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ fn expr_to_lit(dcx: DiagCtxtHandle<'_>, expr: &Expr, span: Span) -> MetaItemLit
             span,
             "expr in place where literal is expected (builtin attr parsing)",
         );
-        MetaItemLit { symbol: kw::Empty, suffix: None, kind: LitKind::Err(guar), span }
+        MetaItemLit { symbol: sym::dummy, suffix: None, kind: LitKind::Err(guar), span }
     }
 }