[Bug c/55613] New: Better warning for reference to struct type

[Bug c/55613] New: Better warning for reference to struct type

[rui.maciel at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55613

             Bug #: 55613
           Summary: Better warning for reference to struct type
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.6.3
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned@gcc.gnu.org
        ReportedBy: rui.maciel@gmail.com


Consider the following code:

<code>
struct Foo
{
        int i;
};

int main(void)
{
        Foo foo;
        return 0;
}
</code>

When compiled with gcc 4.6.3, the following error message is displayed:

<message>
main.c: In function ‘main’:
main.c:8:2: error: unknown type name ‘Foo’
</message>

The problem with this code is that Foo isn't preceded by the keyword "struct". 
Yet, as the compiler only returns a vague message about Foo being an unknown
type name, it may mislead the programmer into assuming that the problem might
lie somewhere else, such as a typo somewhere, particularly if the code contains
a significant number of typedef structs.

A significantly better way to handle this error is to warn that the "struct"
keyword is missing.  This happens to be the way other compilers, such as clang,
handle this error.  The following is clang's error message for this scenario:

<message>
main.c:8:2: error: must use 'struct' tag to refer to type 'Foo'
        Foo foo;
        ^
        struct 
1 error generated.
</message>


It would be great if gcc improved its error diagnostics for this error.

[Bug c/55613] Add suggestion of adding struct if the name exists in the struct tag

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55613

Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
           Keywords|                            |diagnostic
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2012-12-09
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|Better warning for          |Add suggestion of adding
                   |reference to struct type    |struct if the name exists
                   |                            |in the struct tag
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement

[Bug c/55613] Add suggestion of adding struct if the name exists in the struct tag

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55613

Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |manu at gcc dot gnu.org
         Resolution|---                         |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #1 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
Fixed in GCC 6

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 67580 ***
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--- Comment #1 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
If that code is conforming then it's a defect in the standard.