While working on some other changes in the bridge, I noticed that when
running a nested proc-macro (which is currently only possible using
the unstable `TokenStream::expand_expr`), any symbols held by the
proc-macro client would be invalidated, as the same thread would be used
for the nested macro by default, and the interner doesn't handle nested
use.
After discussing with @eddyb, we decided the best approach might be to
force the use of the cross-thread executor for nested invocations, as it
will never re-use thread-local storage, avoiding the issue. This
shouldn't impact performance, as expand_expr is still unstable, and
infrequently used.
This was chosen rather than making the client symbol interner handle
nested invocations, as that would require replacing the internal
interner `Vec` with a `BTreeMap` (as valid symbol id ranges could now be
disjoint), and the symbol interner is known to be fairly perf-sensitive.
This patch adds checks to the execution strategy to use the cross-thread
executor when doing nested invocations. An alternative implementation
strategy could be to track this information in the `ExtCtxt`, however a
thread-local in the `proc_macro` crate was chosen to add an assertion so
that `rust-analyzer` is aware of the issue if it implements
`expand_expr` in the future.
r? @eddyb
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