Fix #20416. Enable the recursion limit for ref/ptr types. (#21092)

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Aditya Siram 2022-12-13 08:57:07 -06:00 • committed by GitHub
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@ -499,10 +499,20 @@ proc propagateFieldFlags(t: PType, n: PNode) =
proc replaceTypeVarsTAux(cl: var TReplTypeVars, t: PType): PType =
template bailout =
if t.sym != nil and sfGeneratedType in t.sym.flags:
# Only consider the recursion limit if the symbol is a type with generic
# parameters that have not been explicitly supplied, typechecking should
# terminate when generic parameters are explicitly supplied.
if (t.sym == nil) or (t.sym != nil and sfGeneratedType in t.sym.flags):
# In the first case 't.sym' can be 'nil' if the type is a ref/ptr, see
# issue https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/20416 for more details.
# Fortunately for us this works for now because partial ref/ptr types are
# not allowed in object construction, eg.
# type
# Container[T] = ...
# O = object
# val: ref Container
#
# In the second case only consider the recursion limit if the symbol is a
# type with generic parameters that have not been explicitly supplied,
# typechecking should terminate when generic parameters are explicitly
# supplied.
if cl.recursionLimit > 100:
# bail out, see bug #2509. But note this caching is in general wrong,
# look at this example where TwoVectors should not share the generic