Buggy error message when dereferencing once a double pointer to struct

[Andrea Monaco via Gcc]

This snippet that I wrote


  struct
  str
  {
    int val;
  };  


  void
  main (int argc, char **argv)
  {
    struct str **p;
    int i;
  
    i = p->val;
  }


is obviously incorrect.  But gcc 8.3.0 says

  pointer.c: In function ‘main’:
  pointer.c:14:8: error: ‘*p’ is a pointer; did you mean to use ‘->’?
     i = p->val;
          ^~
          ->

which seems a buggy error message to me: I wrote "p", not "*p"; also the
compiler suggests replacing "->" with itself.



Andrea Monaco