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Macro expansion recurses endlessly?
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Description
The following macro + invocation(taken from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/88577#issuecomment-914665202) seems to recurse endlessly(or just takes a very long time?) even emitting a warning in name res, [WARN hir_def::nameres::collector] macro expansion is too deep
macro_rules! many_args {
([$($t:tt)*]#$($h:tt)*) => {
many_args!{[$($t)*$($t)*]$($h)*}
};
([$($t:tt)*]) => {
fn _f($($t: ()),*) {}
}
}
many_args!{[_]########## ######}
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the macro_rules! definition and invocation shown in the issue, then observe the [WARN hir_def::nameres::collector] macro expansion is too deep warning. Trace the expansion until the excessive recursion or long runtime is understood; done means this input no longer recurses endlessly or takes an impractical amount of time.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100