Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-27 Thread Jason Merrill
On 05/26/2011 03:04 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: Thanks, this is looking pretty close. A few more issues, mostly to do with wording of the diagnostics: @@ -14084,7 +14350,7 @@ fn_type_unification (tree fn, sarg = tree_cons (NULL_TREE, TREE_TYPE (substed), sarg); for (i = 0;

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-27 Thread Jason Merrill
On 05/27/2011 04:22 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: + /* The PARM is not one we're trying to unify. Just check +to see if it matches ARG. */ + int result = !(TREE_CODE (arg) == TREE_CODE (parm) + cp_tree_equal (parm, arg)); + if (result) +

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Merrill
On 05/25/2011 02:15 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: The patch below implements just such an idea. The only twist is that the `explain' parameter is actually a `location_t *' so that when we provide explanations that aren't produced via tf_warning_or_error blocks, the explanations are attached to the

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Merrill
Thanks for the background; I will keep the principle in mind. IMHO, in a case like this where we're logically printing one diagnostic (one error and then some number of explanatory notes) keeping all the logic for the diagnostic centralized makes more sense. I understand, but that means we

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-18 Thread Nathan Froyd
On 05/18/2011 01:45 PM, Jason Merrill wrote: Thanks for the background; I will keep the principle in mind. IMHO, in a case like this where we're logically printing one diagnostic (one error and then some number of explanatory notes) keeping all the logic for the diagnostic centralized makes

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Merrill
On 05/18/2011 03:00 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: Thank you for the review. I'll go back and try things the way you suggest; before I go off and do that, I've taken your comments to mean that: - fn_type_unification/type_unification_real and associated callers should take a boolean `explain'

Re: [PATCH,c++] describe reasons for function template overload resolution failure

2011-05-10 Thread Jason Merrill
On 05/09/2011 06:49 PM, Nathan Froyd wrote: The patch below is an updated version of: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2011-02/msg9.html Sorry I didn't respond to that message. In general, my preference is to have diagnostics collocated with the tests that lead to them, and just run