diff --git a/gcc/cp/ChangeLog b/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
index 8b883e7656e772fc92ac98abd154053bf6ff5c84..09bbe6849c27478139a8f405c4edf9493c08038b 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/cp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2010-06-02  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
 
+	* error.c (dump_type): Improve typedef handling.
+
 	PR c++/9726
 	PR c++/23594
 	PR c++/44333
diff --git a/gcc/cp/error.c b/gcc/cp/error.c
index 592f360001af1e98d0fdf5a5f1764454cb961b20..381163b2daf6148141a15417a9789d46ebd49bd5 100644
--- a/gcc/cp/error.c
+++ b/gcc/cp/error.c
@@ -329,6 +329,25 @@ dump_type (tree t, int flags)
   if (t == NULL_TREE)
     return;
 
+  /* Don't print e.g. "struct mytypedef".  */
+  if (TYPE_P (t) && typedef_variant_p (t))
+    {
+      tree decl = TYPE_NAME (t);
+      if ((flags & TFF_CHASE_TYPEDEF)
+	  || DECL_SELF_REFERENCE_P (decl)
+	  || (!flag_pretty_templates
+	      && DECL_LANG_SPECIFIC (decl) && DECL_TEMPLATE_INFO (decl)))
+	t = strip_typedefs (t);
+      else if (same_type_p (t, TREE_TYPE (decl)))
+	t = decl;
+      else
+	{
+	  pp_cxx_cv_qualifier_seq (cxx_pp, t);
+	  pp_cxx_tree_identifier (cxx_pp, TYPE_IDENTIFIER (t));
+	  return;
+	}
+    }
+
   if (TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_P (t))
     goto offset_type;
 
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
index dba6f87bb4a1c878f4fef0f6a05601b2d9a73da8..00a6ad63f252e86a035a2a6636f8046ed73db85c 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2010-06-02  Jason Merrill  <jason@redhat.com>
 
+	* g++.dg/ext/vector9.C: Expect typedef in error message.
+
 	PR c++/9726
 	PR c++/23594
 	PR c++/44333
diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/vector9.C b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/vector9.C
index 32e13b494f04f69689859799e6b0685db84c152f..52b3f1714444ad9373ea871269468c4b9c1d7726 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/vector9.C
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/g++.dg/ext/vector9.C
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ typedef int   v4i __attribute__((vector_size(8)));
 void foo()
 {
   v4f v;
-  !(v4i)v; // { dg-error "__vector.2. int|argument" }
+  !(v4i)v; // { dg-error "v4i|argument" }
 }