This uncovered a lot of bugs in compiletest and also some shortcomings
of our existing JSON output. We had to add information to the JSON
output, such as suggested text and macro backtraces. We also had to fix
various bugs in the existing tests.
Joint work with jntrnr.
Original issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/21195
Relevant PR: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/30778
Prior to this commit, if a compiletest testcase included the text
"HELP:" or "NOTE:" (note the colons), then it would indicate to the
compiletest suite that we should verify "help" and "note" expected
messages.
This commit updates this check to also check "HELP" and "NOTE" (not the
absense of colons) so that we always verify "help" and "note" expected
messages.
PR #24242 added the ability to the compiler to directly give suggestions about
how to modify code to fix an error. The new errors look like this:
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:25 error: expected a path on the left-hand side of `+`,
not `&'static Copy` [E0178]
foobar.rs:5 let x: &'static Copy + 'static;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:35 help: try adding parentheses (per RFC 438):
foobar.rs: let x: &'static (Copy + 'static);
foobar.rs:2:13: 2:23 error: cast to unsized type: `&_` as `core::marker::Copy`
foobar.rs:2 let x = &1 as Copy;
^~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:2:19: 2:23 help: try casting to a reference instead:
foobar.rs: let x = &1 as &Copy;
foobar.rs:7:24: 7:25 error: expected expression, found `;`
foobar.rs:7 let x = box (1 + 1);
^
foobar.rs:7:13: 7:16 help: try using `box()` instead:
foobar.rs: let x = box() (1 + 1);
This also modifies compiletest to give the ability to directly test suggestions
given by error messages.
