E0513

src/librustc_typeck/check/mod.rs

@@ -1526,9 +1526,11 @@ impl<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> FnCtxt<'a, 'gcx, 'tcx> {
         match self.locals.borrow().get(&nid) {
             Some(&t) => t,
             None => {
-                span_err!(self.tcx.sess, span, E0513,
-                          "no type for local variable {}",
-                          nid);
+                struct_span_err!(self.tcx.sess, span, E0513,
+                                 "no type for local variable {}",
+                                 self.tcx.map.node_to_string(nid))
+                    .span_label(span, &"no type for variable")
+                    .emit();
                 self.tcx.types.err
             }
         }

src/librustc_typeck/diagnostics.rs

@@ -3766,6 +3766,45 @@ extern "platform-intrinsic" {
 ```
 "##,
 
+E0513: r##"
+The type of the variable couldn't be found out.
+
+Erroneous code example:
+
+```compile_fail,E0513
+use std::mem;
+
+unsafe {
+    let size = mem::size_of::<u32>();
+    mem::transmute_copy::<u32, [u8; size]>(&8_8);
+    // error: no type for local variable
+}
+```
+
+To fix this error, please use a constant size instead of `size`. To make
+this error more obvious, you could run:
+
+```compile_fail,E0080
+use std::mem;
+
+unsafe {
+    mem::transmute_copy::<u32, [u8; mem::size_of::<u32>()]>(&8_8);
+    // error: constant evaluation error
+}
+```
+
+So now, you can fix your code by setting the size directly:
+
+```
+use std::mem;
+
+unsafe {
+    mem::transmute_copy::<u32, [u8; 4]>(&8_8);
+    // `u32` is 4 bytes so we replace the `mem::size_of` call with its size
+}
+```
+"##,
+
 E0516: r##"
 The `typeof` keyword is currently reserved but unimplemented.
 Erroneous code example:
@@ -4064,7 +4103,6 @@ register_diagnostics! {
     E0399, // trait items need to be implemented because the associated
            // type `{}` was overridden
     E0436, // functional record update requires a struct
-    E0513, // no type for local variable ..
     E0521, // redundant default implementations of trait
     E0533, // `{}` does not name a unit variant, unit struct or a constant
     E0562, // `impl Trait` not allowed outside of function

src/test/compile-fail/E0513.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+// Copyright 2016 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+use std::mem;
+
+fn main() {
+    unsafe {
+        let size = mem::size_of::<u32>();
+        mem::transmute_copy::<u32, [u8; size]>(&8_8); //~ ERROR E0513
+                                                      //~| NOTE no type for variable
+    }
+}