rust/compiler/rustc_hir
Ömer Sinan Ağacan fa74d489a2 Improve error msgs when found type is deref of expected
This improves help messages in two cases:

- When expected type is `T` and found type is `&T`, we now look through blocks
  and suggest dereferencing the expression of the block, rather than the whole
  block.

- In the above case, if the expression is an `&`, we not suggest removing the
  `&` instead of adding `*`.

Both of these are demonstrated in the regression test. Before this patch the
first error in the test would be:

    error[E0308]: `if` and `else` have incompatible types
     --> test.rs:8:9
      |
    5 | /     if true {
    6 | |         a
      | |         - expected because of this
    7 | |     } else {
    8 | |         b
      | |         ^ expected `usize`, found `&usize`
    9 | |     };
      | |_____- `if` and `else` have incompatible types
      |
    help: consider dereferencing the borrow
      |
    7 |     } else *{
    8 |         b
    9 |     };
      |

Now:

    error[E0308]: `if` and `else` have incompatible types
     --> test.rs:8:9
      |
    5 | /     if true {
    6 | |         a
      | |         - expected because of this
    7 | |     } else {
    8 | |         b
      | |         ^
      | |         |
      | |         expected `usize`, found `&usize`
      | |         help: consider dereferencing the borrow: `*b`
    9 | |     };
      | |_____- `if` and `else` have incompatible types

The second error:

    error[E0308]: `if` and `else` have incompatible types
      --> test.rs:14:9
       |
    11 | /     if true {
    12 | |         1
       | |         - expected because of this
    13 | |     } else {
    14 | |         &1
       | |         ^^ expected integer, found `&{integer}`
    15 | |     };
       | |_____- `if` and `else` have incompatible types
       |
    help: consider dereferencing the borrow
       |
    13 |     } else *{
    14 |         &1
    15 |     };
       |

now:

    error[E0308]: `if` and `else` have incompatible types
      --> test.rs:14:9
       |
    11 | /     if true {
    12 | |         1
       | |         - expected because of this
    13 | |     } else {
    14 | |         &1
       | |         ^-
       | |         ||
       | |         |help: consider removing the `&`: `1`
       | |         expected integer, found `&{integer}`
    15 | |     };
       | |_____- `if` and `else` have incompatible types

Fixes #82361
2021-02-23 10:50:06 +03:00
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src Improve error msgs when found type is deref of expected 2021-02-23 10:50:06 +03:00
Cargo.toml bumped smallvec deps 2021-02-14 18:03:11 +03:00