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authorYuki Okushi <jtitor@2k36.org>2021-07-08 10:44:30 +0900
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-07-08 10:44:30 +0900
commit165b520b89e9e2f27442a3af793c6d65e76e0981 (patch)
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parentc692896ba27adc1c14941593349c76bd27e189f5 (diff)
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Rollup merge of #86812 - FabianWolff:recover-dyn-mut, r=petrochenkov
Recover from `&dyn mut ...` parse errors

Consider this example:
```rust
fn main() {
    let r: &dyn mut Trait;
}
```
This currently leads to:
```
error: expected one of `!`, `(`, `;`, `=`, `?`, `for`, lifetime, or path, found keyword `mut`
 --> src/main.rs:2:17
  |
2 |     let r: &dyn mut Trait;
  |                 ^^^ expected one of 8 possible tokens

error: aborting due to previous error
```
However, especially for beginners, I think it is easy to get `&dyn mut` and `&mut dyn` confused. With my changes, I get a help message, and the parser even recovers:
```
error: `mut` must precede `dyn`
 --> test.rs:2:12
  |
2 |     let r: &dyn mut Trait;
  |            ^^^^^^^^ help: place `mut` before `dyn`: `&mut dyn`

error[E0405]: cannot find trait `Trait` in this scope
 --> test.rs:2:21
  |
2 |     let r: &dyn mut Trait;
  |                     ^^^^^ not found in this scope

error: aborting due to 2 previous errors
```
Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser')
-rw-r--r--compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/ty.rs22
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/ty.rs b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/ty.rs
index de5a5632600..1fbf01b1b97 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/ty.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/ty.rs
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
         let and_span = self.prev_token.span;
         let mut opt_lifetime =
             if self.check_lifetime() { Some(self.expect_lifetime()) } else { None };
-        let mutbl = self.parse_mutability();
+        let mut mutbl = self.parse_mutability();
         if self.token.is_lifetime() && mutbl == Mutability::Mut && opt_lifetime.is_none() {
             // A lifetime is invalid here: it would be part of a bare trait bound, which requires
             // it to be followed by a plus, but we disallow plus in the pointee type.
@@ -417,6 +417,26 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
 
                 opt_lifetime = Some(self.expect_lifetime());
             }
+        } else if self.token.is_keyword(kw::Dyn)
+            && mutbl == Mutability::Not
+            && self.look_ahead(1, |t| t.is_keyword(kw::Mut))
+        {
+            // We have `&dyn mut ...`, which is invalid and should be `&mut dyn ...`.
+            let span = and_span.to(self.look_ahead(1, |t| t.span));
+            let mut err = self.struct_span_err(span, "`mut` must precede `dyn`");
+            err.span_suggestion(
+                span,
+                "place `mut` before `dyn`",
+                "&mut dyn".to_string(),
+                Applicability::MachineApplicable,
+            );
+            err.emit();
+
+            // Recovery
+            mutbl = Mutability::Mut;
+            let (dyn_tok, dyn_tok_sp) = (self.token.clone(), self.token_spacing);
+            self.bump();
+            self.bump_with((dyn_tok, dyn_tok_sp));
         }
         let ty = self.parse_ty_no_plus()?;
         Ok(TyKind::Rptr(opt_lifetime, MutTy { ty, mutbl }))