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Diffstat (limited to 'compiler')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/semexprs.nim | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/semexprs.nim b/compiler/semexprs.nim index ef5315a61..820522f64 100644 --- a/compiler/semexprs.nim +++ b/compiler/semexprs.nim @@ -1519,7 +1519,8 @@ proc asgnToResultVar(c: PContext, n, le, ri: PNode) {.inline.} = # Special typing rule: do not allow to pass 'owned T' to 'T' in 'result = x': if ri.typ != nil and ri.typ.skipTypes(abstractInst).kind == tyOwned and le.typ != nil and le.typ.skipTypes(abstractInst).kind != tyOwned: - localError(c.config, n.info, "cannot return an owned pointer as an unowned pointer") + localError(c.config, n.info, "cannot return an owned pointer as an unowned pointer; " & + "use 'owned(" & typeToString(le.typ) & ")' as the return type") template resultTypeIsInferrable(typ: PType): untyped = typ.isMetaType and typ.kind != tyTypeDesc |