Visual Studio 2019 Compiler Hangs

Visual Studio 2019 Compiler Hangs

(金庆的专栏 2021.7)

Discovered by my colleague Shen Yichai:

Share a interesting MS Build bug:
For file a.cpp, enable optimization for Win64 or XSX. 
The MSBuild always compiling without error and ending (infinite compile). 
The PS5 (clang) does not have this issue.

The simplified code:

struct Tag
{
	int v;
};

void Goo(Tag* r, Tag* a)
{
	r->v = a->v;
}

void Foo(Tag* pos0, Tag* pos)
{
	for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++)
	{
		if (j == 0) {
			for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
				Goo(pos0++, pos);
				Goo(pos0++, pos);
			}
		}
		else {
			for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
				Goo(pos0++, pos);
				Goo(pos0++, pos);
			}
		}
	}
}

int main()
{
	Foo(nullptr, nullptr);
}

The default release configuration can build correctly.
But if “Properties -> C/C++ -> Optimization -> Whole Program optimization” (/GL) of file or project is changed to “No”,
the compilation will take a long time as 5 minutes.

Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019
Version 16.9.5
VisualStudio.16.Release/16.9.5+31229.75
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 4.8.04084