Rollup merge of #98497 - compiler-errors:span-inference-note, r=lcnr

Improve some inference diagnostics

- Properly point out point location where "type must be known at this point", or else omit the note if it's not associated with a useful span.
- Fix up some type ambiguity diagnostics, errors shouldn't say "cannot infer type for reference `&'a ()`" when the given type has no inference variables.

Author: GuillaumeGomez

compiler/rustc_infer/src/infer/error_reporting/need_type_info.rs

@@ -313,11 +313,12 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> InferCtxt<'a, 'tcx> {
     pub fn emit_inference_failure_err(
         &self,
         body_id: Option<hir::BodyId>,
-        span: Span,
+        failure_span: Span,
         arg: GenericArg<'tcx>,
         // FIXME(#94483): Either use this or remove it.
         _impl_candidates: Vec<ty::TraitRef<'tcx>>,
         error_code: TypeAnnotationNeeded,
+        should_label_span: bool,
     ) -> DiagnosticBuilder<'tcx, ErrorGuaranteed> {
         let arg = self.resolve_vars_if_possible(arg);
         let arg_data = self.extract_inference_diagnostics_data(arg, None);
@@ -326,7 +327,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> InferCtxt<'a, 'tcx> {
             // If we don't have any typeck results we're outside
             // of a body, so we won't be able to get better info
             // here.
-            return self.bad_inference_failure_err(span, arg_data, error_code);
+            return self.bad_inference_failure_err(failure_span, arg_data, error_code);
         };
         let typeck_results = typeck_results.borrow();
         let typeck_results = &typeck_results;
@@ -338,7 +339,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> InferCtxt<'a, 'tcx> {
         }
 
         let Some(InferSource { span, kind }) = local_visitor.infer_source else {
-            return self.bad_inference_failure_err(span, arg_data, error_code)
+            return self.bad_inference_failure_err(failure_span, arg_data, error_code)
         };
 
         let error_code = error_code.into();
@@ -347,6 +348,11 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> InferCtxt<'a, 'tcx> {
             &format!("type annotations needed{}", kind.ty_msg(self)),
             error_code,
         );
+
+        if should_label_span && !failure_span.overlaps(span) {
+            err.span_label(failure_span, "type must be known at this point");
+        }
+
         match kind {
             InferSourceKind::LetBinding { insert_span, pattern_name, ty } => {
                 let suggestion_msg = if let Some(name) = pattern_name {

compiler/rustc_middle/src/ty/mod.rs

@@ -914,9 +914,17 @@ impl<'tcx> Term<'tcx> {
     pub fn ty(&self) -> Option<Ty<'tcx>> {
         if let Term::Ty(ty) = self { Some(*ty) } else { None }
     }
+
     pub fn ct(&self) -> Option<Const<'tcx>> {
         if let Term::Const(c) = self { Some(*c) } else { None }
     }
+
+    pub fn into_arg(self) -> GenericArg<'tcx> {
+        match self {
+            Term::Ty(ty) => ty.into(),
+            Term::Const(c) => c.into(),
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// This kind of predicate has no *direct* correspondent in the