Hi,
it seems we can easily improve the location of this - not so uncommon in
novice code - error to point to the 'static' keyword.
Tested x86_64-linux.
Thanks, Paolo.
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/cp
2018-12-12 Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com>
* decl.c (grokdeclarator): Fix location of error message about
static data member definition.
/testsuite
2018-12-12 Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com>
* g++.dg/other/static5.C: New.
Index: cp/decl.c
===================================================================
--- cp/decl.c (revision 267051)
+++ cp/decl.c (working copy)
@@ -12724,7 +12724,8 @@ grokdeclarator (const cp_declarator *declarator,
DECL_CONTEXT (decl) = ctype;
if (staticp == 1)
{
- permerror (input_location, "%<static%> may not be used when
defining "
+ permerror (declspecs->locations[ds_storage_class],
+ "%<static%> may not be used when defining "
"(as opposed to declaring) a static data member");
staticp = 0;
storage_class = sc_none;
Index: testsuite/g++.dg/other/static5.C
===================================================================
--- testsuite/g++.dg/other/static5.C (nonexistent)
+++ testsuite/g++.dg/other/static5.C (working copy)
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+struct S
+{
+ static int i;
+ const static double d;
+};
+
+static int S::i; // { dg-error "1:.static. may not be used" }
+const static double S::d = 1.0; // { dg-error "7:.static. may not be used" }