From 07397707392d27fbee5f1bf0a788937b66300bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 06:37:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Sema: workaround for generic instantiation recurison bug

---
 src/type.zig | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/type.zig b/src/type.zig
index bcb6e63f6e..da0149967b 100644
--- a/src/type.zig
+++ b/src/type.zig
@@ -1520,6 +1520,13 @@ pub const Type = extern union {
     ) @TypeOf(writer).Error!void {
         _ = options;
         comptime assert(unused_format_string.len == 0);
+        if (@import("builtin").zig_backend != .stage1) {
+            // This is disabled to work around a stage2 bug where this function recursively
+            // causes more generic function instantiations resulting in an infinite loop
+            // in the compiler.
+            try writer.writeAll("[TODO fix internal compiler bug regarding dump]");
+            return;
+        }
         var ty = start_type;
         while (true) {
             const t = ty.tag();