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Project fails (or takes long time) to compile on latest stable and nightly (hang/stackoverflow) #57735

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While attempting to compile my application (or simply run cargo check), rustc will crash, with slightly different results depending on whether it's the stable or nightly branch.

OS: Windows 10 x64 version 1809 build 17763.253

stable toolchain

  • stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  • rustc 1.32.0 (9fda7c2 2019-01-16)

cargo check result: thread 'main' has overflowed its stack

Repro steps

  • Clone my project
  • cd rs-nes
  • git checkout remove-unstable-features
  • cargo check

nightly toolchain

  • nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  • rustc 1.33.0-nightly (daa53a5 2019-01-17)

cargo check result: Process finished with exit code -1

Repro steps

  • Same as above, but on the master branch

Suspected cause

I've narrowed down the issue to a procedural macro that I've had no issues compiling in the past (on nightly). It generates a large match statement which made me think that this recent change may be related, but I have no evidence to support it other than the fact that it changes how the compiler behaves wrt large match statements.

It's also worth noting that I created the remove-unstable-features branch specifically to see if this was only an issue on nightly. It's possible that the error seen on stable is a manifestation of not using unstable features I had been relying on (box patterns, in this case).

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I-slowIssue: Problems and improvements with respect to performance of generated code.P-highHigh priorityregression-from-stable-to-nightlyPerformance or correctness regression from stable to nightly.regression-from-stable-to-stablePerformance or correctness regression from one stable version to another.

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