We are wrongly accepting invalid code like: struct alignas(16 S2 { }; // missing )
The reason is that cp_parser_type_specifier uses tentative parsing to see if we're dealing with a class-specifier, and if that doesn't work, it looks for an elaborated-type-specifier. When trying to parse it as a class-specifier, we use cp_parser_class_head which parses any attributes after the class-key via cp_parser_attributes_opt, and that includes an alignment-specifier. So we're parsing the alignment-specifier, find the missing ')', but since we are parsing tentatively, no error is issued. Then we get back to cp_parser_class_head, and that commits: 23862 /* At this point, we're going ahead with the class-specifier, even 23863 if some other problem occurs. */ 23864 cp_parser_commit_to_tentative_parse (parser); so we lose the error. Fixed as below. Other approach would be to use a tentative_firewall, but that would be a much bigger hammer. Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux, ok for trunk? 2019-06-19 Marek Polacek <pola...@redhat.com> PR c++/64235 - missing syntax error with invalid alignas. * parser.c (cp_parser_std_attribute_spec): Commit to tentative parse if there's a missing close paren. * g++.dg/parse/alignas1.C: New test. diff --git gcc/cp/parser.c gcc/cp/parser.c index 6b4aab8a12f..f88652f1f82 100644 --- gcc/cp/parser.c +++ gcc/cp/parser.c @@ -26371,6 +26371,12 @@ cp_parser_std_attribute_spec (cp_parser *parser) if (alignas_expr == error_mark_node) return error_mark_node; + /* Missing ')' means the code cannot possibly be valid; go ahead + and commit to make sure we issue a hard error. */ + if (cp_parser_uncommitted_to_tentative_parse_p (parser) + && cp_lexer_next_token_is_not (parser->lexer, CPP_CLOSE_PAREN)) + cp_parser_commit_to_tentative_parse (parser); + if (!parens.require_close (parser)) return error_mark_node; diff --git gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/parse/alignas1.C gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/parse/alignas1.C new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..322c0f434f9 --- /dev/null +++ gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/parse/alignas1.C @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +// PR c++/64235 +// { dg-do compile { target c++11 } } + +struct S { + double d; +}; + +struct alignas(sizeof(S) S1 { }; // { dg-error "expected '\\)' before 'S1'" } +struct alignas(16 S2 { }; // { dg-error "expected '\\)' before 'S2'" } +struct alignas(int S3 { }; // { dg-error "expected '\\)' before 'S3'" }