Recover from a misplaced inner doc comment

Fixes #86781

2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.rs b/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.rs
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+++ b/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.rs
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+// aux-build:test-macros.rs
+
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate test_macros;
+
+//! Inner doc comment
+//~^ ERROR expected outer doc comment
+#[derive(Empty)]
+pub struct Foo;
+
+fn main() {}
diff --git a/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.stderr b/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.stderr
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+++ b/src/test/ui/proc-macro/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.stderr
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+error[E0753]: expected outer doc comment
+  --> $DIR/issue-86781-bad-inner-doc.rs:6:1
+   |
+LL | //! Inner doc comment
+   | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+   |
+   = note: inner doc comments like this (starting with `//!` or `/*!`) can only appear before items
+
+error: aborting due to previous error
+
+For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0753`.