rokucommunity / rokucommunity/brighterscript
Prevent alias circular reference stackoverflow
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- TypeScript
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Description
I encountered a stackoverflow when trying to get the type of an alias that pointed to itself. This is obviously not supported, but we should fall back to dynamic or something instead of crashing the process.
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Reproduce the self-referential alias case described in the issue, then trace the type-resolution path that recurses until the stack overflow. Done means the invalid alias no longer crashes the process and resolves to a safe fallback such as dynamic.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100