rust-lang / rust-lang/rust

panic location counts tabs as four columns instead of one

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Description

I tried this code (note that indentation is in tabs, not spaces):

fn main() {
	panic!();
}

I expected to see this happen:

thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:2:2:
explicit panic

Instead, this happened:

thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:2:5:
explicit panic
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rustc --version --verbose:

rustc 1.90.0 (1159e78c4 2025-09-14)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 1159e78c4747b02ef996e55082b704c09b970588
commit-date: 2025-09-14
host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
release: 1.90.0
LLVM version: 20.1.8
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Research direction

Start by reproducing the snippet in src/main.rs with the reported rustc version and compare the panic location for tab indentation. Trace the compiler's panic location reporting to determine where the column is calculated; done means the example reports src/main.rs:2:2 rather than src/main.rs:2:5.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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