rustc exits with SIGSEV (signal 11)

[neandrake]

I have a small project that I've been learning rust with. Just now I've added some code and the next time I run cargo build rustc exits with SIGSEV signal 11. I've previously not run into this issue while working on this project.

Minimal Reproducible Code: main.rs.txt

cspeckrun@specktop ~/P/n/t/barf> cargo build --verbose
   Compiling barf v0.1.0 (file:///Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf)
     Running `rustc src/main.rs --crate-name barf --crate-type bin -g --out-dir /Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=/Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug -L dependency=/Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug/deps`
error: Could not compile `barf`.

Caused by:
  Process didn't exit successfully: `rustc src/main.rs --crate-name barf --crate-type bin -g --out-dir /Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug --emit=dep-info,link -L dependency=/Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug -L dependency=/Users/cspeckrun/Projects/neandrake/test/barf/target/debug/deps` (signal: 11, SIGSEGV: invalid memory reference)
cspeckrun@specktop ~/P/n/t/barf>

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I'm working on Mac (OSX 10.11.5), with rust installed through Homebrew

Cargo & Rust Version:

cspeckrun@specktop ~/P/n/t/barf> rustc --version --verbose
rustc 1.9.0
binary: rustc
commit-hash: unknown
commit-date: unknown
host: x86_64-apple-darwin
release: 1.9.0
cspeckrun@specktop ~/P/n/t/barf> cargo --version --verbose
cargo 0.10.0 (10ddd7d 2016-04-08)

Details on homebrew install:

cspeckrun@specktop ~/P/n/t/barf> brew info rust
rust: stable 1.9.0 (bottled), HEAD
Safe, concurrent, practical language
https://www.rust-lang.org/
Conflicts with: multirust
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.0.0 (13,947 files, 322M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-05-16 at 08:45:38
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.1.0 (13,888 files, 324.4M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-06-26 at 12:02:48
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.2.0 (4,034 files, 244.9M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-08-13 at 09:49:46
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.3.0 (4,147 files, 245M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-09-19 at 01:12:26
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.4.0 (3,968 files, 232.4M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-11-03 at 23:02:54
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.5.0 (4,051 files, 215.8M)
  Poured from bottle on 2015-12-10 at 11:44:31
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.6.0 (8,908 files, 218.1M)
  Poured from bottle on 2016-01-24 at 17:57:02
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.7.0 (10,323 files, 228.2M)
  Poured from bottle on 2016-03-04 at 00:39:39
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.8.0 (9,398 files, 234.8M)
  Poured from bottle on 2016-04-17 at 02:59:36
/usr/local/Cellar/rust/1.9.0 (10,239 files, 239.8M) *
  Poured from bottle on 2016-05-27 at 19:44:00
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/rust.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: cmake ✔
Required: pkg-config ✔, openssl ✔, libssh2 ✔
Optional: llvm ✘
==> Options
--with-llvm
    Build with brewed LLVM. By default, Rust's LLVM will be used.
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

zsh completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions

[neandrake]

I played around with the code to make it actually more minimal, as well as pointing to the line which introduces the error during compilation

#![allow(dead_code)]
#![allow(non_upper_case_globals)]

pub struct UID {
    uid: &'static str,
}

pub static ImplicitVRLittleEndian: &'static UID = &UID { uid: "1.2.840.10008.1.2" };

pub struct TransferSyntax {
    uid: &'static UID,
}

/**** The addition of the following line is what causes the error */
pub static ImplicitVRLittleEndian_TS: &'static TransferSyntax = &TransferSyntax { uid: &ImplicitVRLittleEndian };

fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}

[TimNN]

This seems to have been fixed on nightly (playpen).

[dsprenkels]

According to a quick git-bisect, #33523 contained the commit that fixed this.