[C++ Patch] Fix a start_decl location
Jason Merrill
jason@redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 02:37:00 GMT 2019
On 1/6/19 4:47 AM, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this was supposed to be very straightforward but required a little more.
> A first draft of the patch exploited DECL_SOURCE_LOCATION but that
> failed when I tested the case of a function already defined in class: at
> that point the location of the decl is that of the in class definition
> itself not that of the wrong redeclaration. Thus the use of
> declarator->id_loc. Tested x86_64-linux.
>
> A final note, about a detail already noticed many other times: the
> location we store in such cases is that of K not that of f, and that
> seems suboptimal to me: in principle we should point to f and possibly
> have the wavy queue of the caret going back to K, at least that's what
> clang does... no idea id David has this kind of tweak in his todo list.
David has done various work with handling of qualified-id locations, so
I imagine he'll be interested in this issue.
The patch is OK.
Jason
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