[Bug c++/16002] [3.4/3.5 regression] Strange error message with new parser

[bangerth at dealii dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org  2004-06-15 15:56 -------
Hm, yes. In fact, the second line is not helpful at all, since if I 
insert a semicolon _before_ the 'double', I of course get the same 
error as before ;-) This problem here seems so obvious that I would  
rate it as low priority, though. 
 
As a general remark: I believe that many of these dreaded "expected 
primary-expression before XXX" messages are so unhelpful because they 
wrongly state the context XXX. In this case, we are actually quite 
happy with what we see until we get to the *= operator. We certainly 
don't expect anything else before "double", everything is fine up to 
that point. I have no clue where this comes from, but it seems we 
should instead print the token where things start go wrong, not the first 
token of the expression. I think that this probably holds for a good 
number of the cases where we print this error message. 
 
W. 

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Severity|normal                      |minor
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever Confirmed|                            |1
           Keywords|                            |diagnostic
      Known to fail|                            |3.4.0 3.5.0
   Last reconfirmed|0000-00-00 00:00:00         |2004-06-15 15:56:06
               date|                            |
            Summary|[3.4 regression] Strange    |[3.4/3.5 regression] Strange
                   |error message with new      |error message with new
                   |parser                      |parser


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16002