[release-branch.go1.11] go/types: avoid certain problems with recursive alias type declarations

It is possible to create certain recursive type declarations involving
alias types which cause the type-checker to produce an (invalid) type
for the alias because it is not yet available. By type-checking alias
declarations in a 2nd phase, the problem is mitigated a bit since it
requires more convoluted alias declarations for the problem to appear.

Also re-enable testing of fixedbugs/issue27232.go again (which was the
original cause for this change).

Updates #28576.
Fixes #28972.

Change-Id: If6f9656a95262e6575b01c4a003094d41551564b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/147597
Reviewed-by: Alan Donovan <adonovan@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/151500
Run-TryBot: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bonventre <andybons@golang.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/go/types/resolver.go b/src/go/types/resolver.go
index 5cbaba187b..6646711e7f 100644
--- a/src/go/types/resolver.go
+++ b/src/go/types/resolver.go
@@ -538,7 +538,25 @@ func (check *Checker) packageObjects() {
 	// pre-allocate space for type declaration paths so that the underlying array is reused
 	typePath := make([]*TypeName, 0, 8)
 
+	// We process non-alias declarations first, in order to avoid situations where
+	// the type of an alias declaration is needed before it is available. In general
+	// this is still not enough, as it is possible to create sufficiently convoluted
+	// recursive type definitions that will cause a type alias to be needed before it
+	// is available (see issue #25838 for examples).
+	// As an aside, the cmd/compiler suffers from the same problem (#25838).
+	var aliasList []*TypeName
+	// phase 1
 	for _, obj := range objList {
+		// If we have a type alias, collect it for the 2nd phase.
+		if tname, _ := obj.(*TypeName); tname != nil && check.objMap[tname].alias {
+			aliasList = append(aliasList, tname)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		check.objDecl(obj, nil, typePath)
+	}
+	// phase 2
+	for _, obj := range aliasList {
 		check.objDecl(obj, nil, typePath)
 	}