When a `proc_macro` has a stack overflow, rustc crashes and errors confusingly

[PizzasBear]

Code

// --- macro_crate/src/lib.rs ---
use proc_macro::TokenStream;

#[proc_macro_derive(Trait)]
pub fn derive_trait(tokens: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
    if true {
        derive_trait(tokens)
    } else {
        TokenStream::new()
    }
}


// --- my-crate/src/main.rs ---
#[derive(Trait)]
struct S;

fn main() {}

Current output

error: rustc interrupted by SIGSEGV, printing backtrace

~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_driver-fd05879751a9d790.so(+0x3104966)[0x7f5e85f04966]
/lib64/libc.so.6(+0x3e9a0)[0x7f5e82ac49a0]
.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21420)[0x7f5e79482420]

### cycle encountered after 3 frames with period 4
.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21425)[0x7f5e79482425]
.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21425)[0x7f5e79482425]
.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21425)[0x7f5e79482425]
.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21425)[0x7f5e79482425]
### recursed 63 times

.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so(+0x21425)[0x7f5e79482425]

note: rustc unexpectedly overflowed its stack! this is a bug
note: maximum backtrace depth reached, frames may have been lost
note: we would appreciate a report at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust
error: could not compile `test-issue` (bin "test-issue")

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/rustc --crate-name test_issue --edition=2021 src/main.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --diagnostic-width=212 --crate-type bin --emit=dep-info,link -C embed-bitcode=no -C debuginfo=2 -C metadata=10df6c618bb41553 -C extra-filename=-10df6c618bb41553 --out-dir .../test-issue/target/debug/deps -C incremental=.../test-issue/target/debug/incremental -L dependency=.../test-issue/target/debug/deps --extern askama=.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libaskama-a71517d66164d0f1.rlib --extern macro_crate=.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libmacro_crate-a1b04264bf77fcce.so --extern serde=.../test-issue/target/debug/deps/libserde-916cd61b435466f2.rlib -C link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld` (signal: 11, SIGSEGV: invalid memory reference)

Desired output

Macro at `#[derive(Trait)]` has overflowed.

Or something that specifies the place where the macro overflowed, its crate, and that doesn't imply the issue is with rustc.

Rationale and extra context

No response

Other cases

No response

Anything else?

No response

[fmease]

Strongly related: #106298

[workingjubilee]

@PizzasBear Can you explain the real use-case that led to this bug report?

It is challenging to extract useful error messages from rustc during SIGSEGV. Successfully identifying a stack overflow and formatting an error at all is more complicated than it seems. Allocation and locks are effectively a no-go. Getting the error message this nice was a little bit of a feat. So I'd like to at least know what real cases triggered this, because that would affect how I approached any improvement. Surely it can't be this simplistic unconditional recursion?