"unconstrained generic constant" doesn't make sense with `generic_const_exprs`
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Description
I tried this code:
// One crate
pub struct Tree<const C: u32> {}
impl<const C: u32> Tree<C> {
pub fn verify()
where
[(); C as usize]:,
{
}
}
pub struct TreeEntry;
impl TreeEntry {
pub const S: usize = 8;
}
// Another crate
Tree::<{ TreeEntry::S.ilog2() }>::verify();
I expected to see this happen: It should compile and it actually does when in the same crate
Instead, this happened:
error: unconstrained generic constant
--> crates/subspace-verification/src/lib.rs:242:5
|
242 | Tree::<{ TreeEntry::S.ilog2() }>::verify();
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
note: required by a bound in `ab_merkle_tree::balanced_hashed::Tree::<C>::verify`
--> crates/shared/ab-merkle-tree/src/balanced_hashed.rs:248:14
|
246 | pub fn verify()
| ------ required by a bound in this associated function
247 | where
248 | [(); C as usize]:,
| ^^^^^^^^^^ required by this bound in `Tree::<C>::verify`
help: try adding a `where` bound
|
200 | [(); C as usize]:
| +++++++++++++++++
Suggestion is incorrect: it suggests to add bound on generic constant C, but in the scope where it is used there is no such constant, only Record::S.ilog2(). Adding bound with Record::S.ilog2() doesn't help with this either. Using explicit numeric literal avoids the issue.
I looked at a few potentially relevant issues, but nothing seems to match this exactly.
I'd love to see more work happening around generic_const_exprs, it is such an amazing capability!
Meta
rustc --version --verbose:
rustc 1.88.0-nightly (2da29dbe8 2025-04-14)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 2da29dbe8fe23df1c7c4ab1d8740ca3c32b15526
commit-date: 2025-04-14
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.88.0-nightly
LLVM version: 20.1.2
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue with the two-crate generic_const_exprs example and the rustc 1.88.0-nightly version shown. Compare the same expression within one crate against the cross-crate call, focusing on the diagnostic and suggested bound. Done means the cross-crate case is handled consistently and the emitted suggestion is valid.
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- rust
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- Bug
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