Currently, trunk emits this for a bad unary * in C: bad-dereference.c:10:10: error: invalid type argument of unary ‘*’ (have ‘int’) return *some_f.x; ^
The following patch fixes the reported location to highlight the expression that was attempted to be dereferenced: bad-dereference.c:10:10: error: invalid type argument of unary ‘*’ (have ‘int’) return *some_f.x; ^~~~~~~~~ Based on another example from: http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html albeit within the "Precision in Wording" example; I didn't change the wording. Successfully bootstrapped®rtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. OK for trunk in stage 3? gcc/c/ChangeLog: * c-parser.c (c_parser_unary_expression): For dereferences, build a combined location before calling build_indirect_ref, so that error reports cover the full range, manually updating the c_expr src_range. gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c: New test case. --- gcc/c/c-parser.c | 8 ++++++-- gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c diff --git a/gcc/c/c-parser.c b/gcc/c/c-parser.c index 774354a..a22c3d2 100644 --- a/gcc/c/c-parser.c +++ b/gcc/c/c-parser.c @@ -6691,8 +6691,12 @@ c_parser_unary_expression (c_parser *parser) op = c_parser_cast_expression (parser, NULL); finish = op.get_finish (); op = convert_lvalue_to_rvalue (exp_loc, op, true, true); - ret.value = build_indirect_ref (op_loc, op.value, RO_UNARY_STAR); - set_c_expr_source_range (&ret, op_loc, finish); + { + location_t combined_loc = make_location (op_loc, op_loc, finish); + ret.value = build_indirect_ref (combined_loc, op.value, RO_UNARY_STAR); + ret.src_range.m_start = op_loc; + ret.src_range.m_finish = finish; + } return ret; case CPP_PLUS: if (!c_dialect_objc () && !in_system_header_at (input_location)) diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f8188d --- /dev/null +++ b/gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/bad-dereference.c @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +/* { dg-options "-fdiagnostics-show-caret" } */ + +struct foo +{ + int x; +}; + +int test_1 (struct foo some_f) +{ + return *some_f.x; /* { dg-error "invalid type argument of unary ... .have .int.." } */ +/* { dg-begin-multiline-output "" } + return *some_f.x; + ^~~~~~~~~ + { dg-end-multiline-output "" } */ +} + +int test_2 (struct foo some_f) +{ + return *some_f; /* { dg-error "invalid type argument of unary ... .have .struct foo.." } */ +/* { dg-begin-multiline-output "" } + return *some_f; + ^~~~~~~ + { dg-end-multiline-output "" } */ +} -- 1.8.5.3