diff --git a/src/librustc_borrowck/borrowck/mod.rs b/src/librustc_borrowck/borrowck/mod.rs
index 20d495976b05f..a48f1d2d2709b 100644
--- a/src/librustc_borrowck/borrowck/mod.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_borrowck/borrowck/mod.rs
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> BorrowckCtxt<'a, 'tcx> {
 
                 match err.cause {
                     MutabilityViolation => {
+                        local_def = err.cmt.get_def().map(|nid| self.tcx.hir.span(nid));
                         format!("cannot assign to {}", descr)
                     }
                     BorrowViolation(euv::ClosureCapture(_)) => {
@@ -1132,6 +1133,7 @@ before rustc 1.16, this temporary lived longer - see issue #39283 \
             }
         }
     }
+
     pub fn append_loan_path_to_string(&self,
                                       loan_path: &LoanPath<'tcx>,
                                       out: &mut String) {
diff --git a/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.rs b/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9ec8728fd32c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Copyright 2017 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+struct Foo {
+    pub v: Vec<String>
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let f = Foo { v: Vec::new() };
+    f.v.push("cat".to_string());
+}
+
+
+struct S {
+    x: i32,
+}
+fn foo() {
+    let s = S { x: 42 };
+    s.x += 1;
+}
+
+fn bar(s: S) {
+    s.x += 1;
+}
diff --git a/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.stderr b/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.stderr
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bea3d1291433d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/ui/did_you_mean/issue-35937.stderr
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+error: cannot borrow immutable field `f.v` as mutable
+  --> $DIR/issue-35937.rs:17:5
+   |
+16 |     let f = Foo { v: Vec::new() };
+   |         - consider changing this to `mut f`
+17 |     f.v.push("cat".to_string());
+   |     ^^^ cannot mutably borrow immutable field
+
+error: cannot assign to immutable field `s.x`
+  --> $DIR/issue-35937.rs:26:5
+   |
+25 |     let s = S { x: 42 };
+   |         - consider changing this to `mut s`
+26 |     s.x += 1;
+   |     ^^^^^^^^ cannot mutably borrow immutable field
+
+error: cannot assign to immutable field `s.x`
+  --> $DIR/issue-35937.rs:30:5
+   |
+29 | fn bar(s: S) {
+   |        - consider changing this to `mut s`
+30 |     s.x += 1;
+   |     ^^^^^^^^ cannot mutably borrow immutable field
+
+error: aborting due to 3 previous errors
+