3 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer/mod.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer/mod.rs
index 0e1c3b4b61f..cf51d3ed58d 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer/mod.rs
@@ -1408,9 +1408,10 @@ impl<'a> StringReader<'a> {
                     // lifetimes shouldn't end with a single quote
                     // if we find one, then this is an invalid character literal
                     if self.ch_is('\'') {
-                        self.fatal_span_verbose(start_with_quote, self.next_pos,
-                                String::from("character literal may only contain one codepoint"))
-                            .raise();
+                        self.err_span_(start_with_quote, self.next_pos,
+                                "character literal may only contain one codepoint");
+                        self.bump();
+                        return Ok(token::Literal(token::Err(Symbol::intern("??")), None))
 
                     }
 
@@ -1445,7 +1446,7 @@ impl<'a> StringReader<'a> {
                                     format!("\"{}\"", &self.src[start..end]),
                                     Applicability::MachineApplicable
                                 ).emit();
-                            return Ok(token::Literal(token::Str_(Symbol::intern("??")), None))
+                            return Ok(token::Literal(token::Err(Symbol::intern("??")), None))
                         }
                         if self.ch_is('\n') || self.is_eof() || self.ch_is('/') {
                             // Only attempt to infer single line string literals. If we encounter
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
index ddb350faa54..8d039692ac4 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/mod.rs
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ crate fn lit_token(lit: token::Lit, suf: Option<Symbol>, diag: Option<(Span, &Ha
     match lit {
        token::Byte(i) => (true, Some(LitKind::Byte(byte_lit(&i.as_str()).0))),
        token::Char(i) => (true, Some(LitKind::Char(char_lit(&i.as_str(), diag).0))),
+       token::Err(i) => (true, Some(LitKind::Err(i))),
 
         // There are some valid suffixes for integer and float literals,
         // so all the handling is done internally.
diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/token.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/token.rs
index 25a4da38c8c..f06e975a6d9 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/token.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/token.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ impl DelimToken {
 pub enum Lit {
     Byte(ast::Name),
     Char(ast::Name),
+    Err(ast::Name),
     Integer(ast::Name),
     Float(ast::Name),
     Str_(ast::Name),
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ impl Lit {
         match *self {
             Byte(_) => "byte literal",
             Char(_) => "char literal",
+            Err(_) => "invalid literal",
             Integer(_) => "integer literal",
             Float(_) => "float literal",
             Str_(_) | StrRaw(..) => "string literal",
@@ -471,8 +473,7 @@ impl Token {
 
             Le | EqEq | Ne | Ge | AndAnd | OrOr | Tilde | BinOpEq(..) | At | DotDotDot |
             DotDotEq | Comma | Semi | ModSep | RArrow | LArrow | FatArrow | Pound | Dollar |
-            Question | OpenDelim(..) | CloseDelim(..) => return None,
-
+            Question | OpenDelim(..) | CloseDelim(..) |
             Literal(..) | Ident(..) | Lifetime(..) | Interpolated(..) | DocComment(..) |
             Whitespace | Comment | Shebang(..) | Eof => return None,
         })