https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66130
--- Comment #9 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> ---
(In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #8)
> (In reply to Paolo Carlini from comment #7)
> > First blush I'm wondering if in this specific case we couldn't forward from
> > dump_decl to dump_expr and just print ‘l->*ptr’. AFAICS, wouldn't be a
> > regression and would allow us to adopt immediately Manuel' patch.
>
> I could simply do
>
> if (DECL_P(expr)) error("%qD") else error("%qE")
Sure.
> but I was trying to avoid %qE because I think pretty-printing user coded
> expressions is something we should always avoid since they usually do not
> come out as written by the user.
In general, I know that ;)
> I would prefer to print:
>
> error: invalid use of non-static member function 'void (Local::*ptr)()'
>
> which tells the user that ->*ptr is a pointer to member-function.
But the error message is about l->*ptr, not about ptr per se. Thus I think that
in such cases using dump_type (or %qT at the call site) on TREE_TYPE (t)
(TREE_TYPE (expr)) should be Ok.
