Improve parser recovery when we encounter a dependent template name
that is missing the 'template' keyword, e.g., t->getAs<T>() where getAs is a member of an unknown specialization. C++ requires that we treat "getAs" as a value, but that would fail to parse since T is the name of a type. We would then fail at the '>', since a type cannot be followed by a '>'. This is a very common error for C++ programmers to make, especially since GCC occasionally allows it when it shouldn't (as does Visual C++). So, when we are in this case, we use tentative parsing to see if the tokens starting at "<" can only be parsed as a template argument list. If so, we produce a diagnostic with a fix-it that states that the 'template' keyword is needed: test/SemaTemplate/dependent-template-recover.cpp:5:8: error: 'template' keyword is required to treat 'getAs' as a dependent template name t->getAs<T>(); ^ template This is just a start of this patch; I'd like to apply the same approach to everywhere that a template-id with dependent template name can be parsed. llvm-svn: 104406
Loading
Please register or sign in to comment