Use string literal directly when available in format

Previous implementation used the `Parser::parse_expr` function in order
to extract the format expression. If the first comma following the
format expression was mistakenly replaced with a dot, then the next
format expression was eaten by the function, because it looked as a
syntactically valid expression, which resulted in incorrectly spanned
error messages.

The way the format expression is exctracted is changed: we first look at
the first available token in the first argument supplied to the
`format!` macro call. If it is a string literal, then it is promoted as
a format expression immediatly, otherwise we fall back to the original
`parse_expr`-related method.

This allows us to ensure that the parser won't consume too much tokens
when a typo is made.

A test has been created so that it is ensured that the issue is properly
fixed.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/format.rs b/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/format.rs
index 373277f525d..48506148ed9 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/format.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_builtin_macros/src/format.rs
@@ -135,7 +135,26 @@ fn parse_args<'a>(
         return Err(ecx.struct_span_err(sp, "requires at least a format string argument"));
     }
 
-    let fmtstr = p.parse_expr()?;
+    let first_token = &p.token;
+    let fmtstr = match first_token.kind {
+        token::TokenKind::Literal(token::Lit {
+            kind: token::LitKind::Str | token::LitKind::StrRaw(_),
+            ..
+        }) => {
+            // If the first token is a string literal, then a format expression
+            // is constructed from it.
+            //
+            // This allows us to properly handle cases when the first comma
+            // after the format string is mistakenly replaced with any operator,
+            // which cause the expression parser to eat too much tokens.
+            p.parse_literal_maybe_minus()?
+        }
+        _ => {
+            // Otherwise, we fall back to the expression parser.
+            p.parse_expr()?
+        }
+    };
+
     let mut first = true;
     let mut named = false;
 
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/expr.rs b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/expr.rs
index f022c628fe2..69d13b5cf53 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/expr.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_parse/src/parser/expr.rs
@@ -1480,7 +1480,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
 
     /// Matches `'-' lit | lit` (cf. `ast_validation::AstValidator::check_expr_within_pat`).
     /// Keep this in sync with `Token::can_begin_literal_maybe_minus`.
-    pub(super) fn parse_literal_maybe_minus(&mut self) -> PResult<'a, P<Expr>> {
+    pub fn parse_literal_maybe_minus(&mut self) -> PResult<'a, P<Expr>> {
         maybe_whole_expr!(self);
 
         let lo = self.token.span;