Found this while reviewing PR rust-lang/rust#138740: See rust-lang/rust#138740 (comment).

The diagnostic emitted by lint empty_line_after_doc_comments highlights the following item if present and notes if the doc comment should not document `NAME` comment it out where NAME is the name of the item. However, there are item kinds that don't (quite) have a name, namely Use, ForeignMod, GlobalAsm, Impl, MacCall, DelegationMac if we're talking about the AST (and not the HIR).

In the rustc that Clippy currently uses such AST items bear an empty name (as a dummy placeholder) and Clippy blindly leaks it to users. Consider:

#![deny(clippy::empty_line_after_doc_comments)] /// X // fn f() {} impl Ty {} struct Ty;

error: empty line after doc comment --> src/lib.rs:3:1 | 3 | / /// X 4 | | // fn f() {} 5 | | | |_^ 6 | impl Ty {} | ------- the comment documents this implementation | = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#empty_line_after_doc_comments note: the lint level is defined here --> src/lib.rs:1:9 | 1 | #![deny(clippy::empty_line_after_doc_comments)] | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ = help: if the empty line is unintentional remove it help: if the doc comment should not document `` comment it out | 3 | // /// X | ++ 

Notice the last subdiagnostic.

I'll fix this after the Clippy sync once it includes PR rust-lang/rust#138740 (which would make the fix less hacky). Blocking it on the next sync.

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@rustbot label C-bug S-blocked T-AST