fix: Crash when hovering on anonymous consts
Previously, the following code would cause rust-analyzer to infinitely
recurse when hovering on `x`.
trait Tr<const N: usize> {}
pub fn f(x: impl Tr<{ 0 }>) {}
Attaching gdb and printing a stack trace shows that the problem is in
HirDisplay for an anonymous const.
frame 9 hir_ty::display::hir_fmt_generic_arguments () at crates/hir-ty/src/display.rs:1920
frame 10 0x00005555563b9f94 in hir_ty::display::hir_fmt_generics () at crates/hir-ty/src/display.rs:1843
frame 11 0x00005555563bd0ea in <hir_ty::next_solver::consts::Const as hir_ty::display::HirDisplay>::hir_fmt () at crates/hir-ty/src/display.rs:768
frame 12 0x00005555563ba964 in <hir_ty::next_solver::generic_arg::GenericArg as hir_ty::display::HirDisplay>::hir_fmt () at crates/hir-ty/src/display.rs:716
frame 13 hir_ty::display::hir_fmt_generic_arguments () at crates/hir-ty/src/display.rs:1920
Instead, just render anonymous consts as `{const}` rather than trying
to render the synthetic type parameters too.
(We could track cycles like we do for recursive bounds, but that just
produces a hover of `x: impl Tr<{const}<impl …>> + ?Sized` which
doesn't seem terribly useful.)
AI disclosure: Initial implementation done with Codex and GPT-5.5.
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