Proposal

This is an MCP for PR rust-lang/rust#139720.

Compiletest currently accepts line annotations without kind in UI tests.

    let a = b + c; //~ my message

Such annotations have two effects.

• First, they match any compiler-produced diagnostic kind. This functionality is never used in practice, there are no target-dependent diagnostic kinds of something like that.
• Second, they are not "viral". For example, any explicit //~ NOTE my msg in a test requires all other NOTE diagnostics in the same test to be annotated. Implicit //~ my msg will just match the note and won't require other annotations.

The second functionality has a replacement since recently - directive //@ dont-require-annotations: NOTE.

The proposal is to remove support for //~ my message annotations and always require specifying the kind.
Unwanted additional annotations can be suppressed using the dont-require-annotations directive if necessary.

Mentors or Reviewers

@jieyouxu

Process

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