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-rw-r--r--src/librustc/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs13
-rw-r--r--src/librustc_typeck/check/coercion.rs6
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/librustc/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs b/src/librustc/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs
index a88e90caee3..b24c9690a46 100644
--- a/src/librustc/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc/infer/error_reporting/mod.rs
@@ -333,11 +333,20 @@ impl<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> InferCtxt<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> {
             GenericBoundFailure(..) => true,
         };
 
-        if errors.iter().all(|e| is_bound_failure(e)) {
+
+        let mut errors = if errors.iter().all(|e| is_bound_failure(e)) {
             errors.clone()
         } else {
             errors.iter().filter(|&e| !is_bound_failure(e)).cloned().collect()
-        }
+        };
+
+        // sort the errors by span, for better error message stability.
+        errors.sort_by_key(|u| match *u {
+            ConcreteFailure(ref sro, _, _) => sro.span(),
+            GenericBoundFailure(ref sro, _, _) => sro.span(),
+            SubSupConflict(ref rvo, _, _, _, _) => rvo.span(),
+        });
+        errors
     }
 
     /// Adds a note if the types come from similarly named crates
diff --git a/src/librustc_typeck/check/coercion.rs b/src/librustc_typeck/check/coercion.rs
index cfcdbcc1195..94422f93e59 100644
--- a/src/librustc_typeck/check/coercion.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_typeck/check/coercion.rs
@@ -187,7 +187,11 @@ impl<'f, 'gcx, 'tcx> Coerce<'f, 'gcx, 'tcx> {
         }
 
         // Consider coercing the subtype to a DST
-        let unsize = self.coerce_unsized(a, b);
+        //
+        // NOTE: this is wrapped in a `commit_if_ok` because it creates
+        // a "spurious" type variable, and we don't want to have that
+        // type variable in memory if the coercion fails.
+        let unsize = self.commit_if_ok(|_| self.coerce_unsized(a, b));
         if unsize.is_ok() {
             debug!("coerce: unsize successful");
             return unsize;