rust-lang / rust-lang/rust

trait upcasting doesn't handle duplicate projection bounds

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Description

trait Super<T> {
    type Assoc;
}
trait Trait<T, U>: Super<T, Assoc = T> + Super<U, Assoc = U> {}

fn compiles(x: Box<dyn Trait<u32, i32>>) -> Box<dyn Super<u32, Assoc = u32>> {
    x
}

fn does_not(x: Box<dyn Trait<u32, u32>>) -> Box<dyn Super<u32, Assoc = u32>> {
    x // ERROR mismatched types
}

both of these should work or the second one should at least fail with an ambiguity error. It's really weird that we just hard reject this

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Research direction

Start by compiling the provided Rust example and compare the successful and failing trait-upcast cases. Trace the compiler's trait upcasting and duplicate projection-bound handling; done means the second case either upcasts successfully or reports an explicit ambiguity error instead of a type mismatch.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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