c++: Improve fixits for incorrect explicit instantiations

When forgetting the '<>' on an explicit specialisation, the suggested
fixit hint suggests to add 'template <>', but naively applying will
cause nonsense results like 'template template <> struct S<int> {};'.

Instead check if we're currently parsing an explicit instantiation, and
if so inform about the issue (an instantiation cannot have a class body)
and suggest a fixit of simply '<>' to create a specialisation instead.

gcc/cp/ChangeLog:

	* parser.cc (cp_parser_class_head): Clarify error message for
	explicit instantiations.

gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* g++.dg/template/explicit-instantiation9.C: New test.

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Shead <nathanieloshead@gmail.com>

diff --git a/gcc/cp/parser.cc b/gcc/cp/parser.cc
index f625b0a310c8fa084bcc8f8bc1ab4cd1e2f0e4ef..82f3903838e2cb71290a59acb0d6698951eb8c59 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/cp/parser.cc
+++ b/gcc/cp/parser.cc
@@ -27721,11 +27721,20 @@ cp_parser_class_head (cp_parser* parser,
                          class_head_start_location,
                          get_finish (type_start_token->location));
       rich_location richloc (line_table, reported_loc);
-      richloc.add_fixit_insert_before (class_head_start_location,
-                                       "template <> ");
-      error_at (&richloc,
-               "an explicit specialization must be preceded by"
-               " %<template <>%>");
+      if (processing_explicit_instantiation)
+       {
+         richloc.add_fixit_insert_before ("<> ");
+         error_at (&richloc,
+                   "an explicit instantiation cannot have a definition;"
+                   " use %<template <>%> to declare a specialization");
+       }
+      else
+       {
+         richloc.add_fixit_insert_before ("template <> ");
+         error_at (&richloc,
+                   "an explicit specialization must be preceded by"
+                   " %<template <>%>");
+       }
       invalid_explicit_specialization_p = true;
       /* Take the same action that would have been taken by
         cp_parser_explicit_specialization.  */

diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/template/explicit-instantiation9.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/template/explicit-instantiation9.C
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c440022
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/template/explicit-instantiation9.C
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+// Fixits for specialisations are not valid for instantiations
+
+template <typename T>
+struct S {};
+
+template struct S<int> {};  // { dg-error "explicit instantiation cannot have a definition" }