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-rw-r--r--pretyping/detyping.ml7
-rw-r--r--test-suite/bugs/closed/5750.v3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pretyping/detyping.ml b/pretyping/detyping.ml
index 1eb22cdb8..f61638db8 100644
--- a/pretyping/detyping.ml
+++ b/pretyping/detyping.ml
@@ -460,8 +460,11 @@ and detype_r d flags avoid env sigma t =
in GVar (Id.of_string s))
| Meta n ->
(* Meta in constr are not user-parsable and are mapped to Evar *)
- (* using numbers to be unparsable *)
- GEvar (Id.of_string ("M" ^ string_of_int n), [])
+ if n = Constr_matching.special_meta then
+ (* Using a dash to be unparsable *)
+ GEvar (Id.of_string_soft "CONTEXT-HOLE", [])
+ else
+ GEvar (Id.of_string_soft ("M" ^ string_of_int n), [])
| Var id ->
(try let _ = Global.lookup_named id in GRef (VarRef id, None)
with Not_found -> GVar id)
diff --git a/test-suite/bugs/closed/5750.v b/test-suite/bugs/closed/5750.v
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d0e21f5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-suite/bugs/closed/5750.v
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+(* Check printability of the hole of the context *)
+Goal 0 = 0.
+match goal with |- context c [0] => idtac c end.