[Bug c++/39859] New: C++: Duplicated and unhelpful error for "c:n"

[Bug c++/39859] New: C++: Duplicated and unhelpful error for "c:n"

[ian at airs dot com]

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When I compile this erroneous C++ program

namespace n { const int c = 1; }
int foo() { return n:c; }

I get this:

foo.cc: In function ‘int foo()’:
foo.cc:2: error: expected primary-expression before ‘:’ token
foo.cc:2: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘:’ token
foo.cc:2: error: expected primary-expression before ‘:’ token
foo.cc:2: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘:’ token

The duplicated error messages are useless; I think that is a bug.

Even if that bug is fixed, this error message could be better.  The error is
using a single colon instead of two colons.  "expected primary-expression" is
not helpful to the user.  Firstly, as in PR 39858, what is missing is an
expression, not a primary-expression.  Secondly, the colon is clearly out of
place; if we found an expression, we would still fail.  In this case, we
actually know that we just saw a NAMESPACE_DECL.  We can give a better error
message in this context.


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           Summary: C++: Duplicated and unhelpful error for "c:n"
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.5.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P3
         Component: c++
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: ian at airs dot com


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39859

[Bug c++/39859] duplicated and unhelpful error for "c:n" (parser)

[manu at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #1 from manu at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-04-29 13:21 -------
Confirmed.


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manu at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |manu at gcc dot gnu dot org
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
           Keywords|                            |diagnostic
   Last reconfirmed|0000-00-00 00:00:00         |2009-04-29 13:21:44
               date|                            |
            Summary|C++: Duplicated and         |duplicated and unhelpful
                   |unhelpful error for "c:n"   |error for "c:n" (parser)


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39859