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A-NLLArea: Non-lexical lifetimes (NLL)A-diagnosticsArea: Messages for errors, warnings, and lintsC-enhancementCategory: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one.E-easyCall for participation: Easy difficulty. Experience needed to fix: Not much. Good first issue.E-mentorCall for participation: This issue has a mentor. Use #t-compiler/help on Zulip for discussion.NLL-diagnosticsWorking towards the "diagnostic parity" goalT-compilerRelevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.
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opened on Dec 24, 2017

UPDATE: Mentoring instructions here.

Tested at 5165ee9 and current playpen

#![feature(nll)] fn foo(x: &u32) -> &'static u32 { &*x } fn main() {}

Error message:

error: free region `` does not outlive free region `'static` --> src/main.rs:4:5 | 4 | &*x | ^^^ error: aborting due to previous error

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A-NLLArea: Non-lexical lifetimes (NLL)A-diagnosticsArea: Messages for errors, warnings, and lintsC-enhancementCategory: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one.E-easyCall for participation: Easy difficulty. Experience needed to fix: Not much. Good first issue.E-mentorCall for participation: This issue has a mentor. Use #t-compiler/help on Zulip for discussion.NLL-diagnosticsWorking towards the "diagnostic parity" goalT-compilerRelevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.

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