Avoid some common false positives in intra doc link checking

rust-lang · Mar 9, 2019 · a4ea084 · a4ea084
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diff --git a/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs b/src/librustdoc/passes/collect_intra_doc_links.rs
@@ -291,6 +291,12 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx, 'rcx> DocFolder for LinkCollector<'a, 'tcx, 'rcx> {
             if ori_link.contains('/') {
                 continue;
             }
+
+            // [] is mostly likely not supposed to be a link
+            if ori_link.is_empty() {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             let link = ori_link.replace("`", "");
             let (def, fragment) = {
                 let mut kind = PathKind::Unknown;