@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ pub(super) fn transcribe<'a>(
228228 }
229229
230230 // Replace the meta-var with the matched token tree from the invocation.
231- mbe:: TokenTree :: MetaVar ( mut sp, mut original_ident) => {
231+ mbe:: TokenTree :: MetaVar ( mut sp, mut original_ident, undelimited_seq ) => {
232232 // Find the matched nonterminal from the macro invocation, and use it to replace
233233 // the meta-var.
234234 let ident = MacroRulesNormalizedIdent :: new ( original_ident) ;
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ pub(super) fn transcribe<'a>(
237237 MatchedTokenTree ( tt) => {
238238 // `tt`s are emitted into the output stream directly as "raw tokens",
239239 // without wrapping them into groups.
240- result. push ( tt . clone ( ) ) ;
240+ result. push ( maybe_use_metavar_location ( cx , tt , sp , * undelimited_seq ) ) ;
241241 }
242242 MatchedNonterminal ( nt) => {
243243 // Other variables are emitted into the output stream as groups with
@@ -302,6 +302,54 @@ pub(super) fn transcribe<'a>(
302302 }
303303}
304304
305+ /// Usually metavariables `$var` produce interpolated tokens, which have an additional place for
306+ /// keeping both the original span and the metavariable span. For `tt` metavariables that's not the
307+ /// case however, and there's no place for keeping a second span. So we try to give the single
308+ /// produced span a location that would be most useful in practice (the hygiene part of the span
309+ /// must not be changed).
310+ ///
311+ /// Different locations are useful for different purposes:
312+ /// - The original location is useful when we need to report a diagnostic for the original token in
313+ /// isolation, without combining it with any surrounding tokens. This case occurs, but it is not
314+ /// very common in practice.
315+ /// - The metavariable location is useful when we need to somehow combine the token span with spans
316+ /// of its surrounding tokens. This is the most common way to use token spans.
317+ ///
318+ /// So this function replaces the original location with the metavariable location in all cases
319+ /// except these two:
320+ /// - The metavariable is an element of undelimited sequence `$($tt)*`.
321+ /// These are typically used for passing larger amounts of code, and tokens in that code usually
322+ /// combine with each other and not with tokens outside of the sequence.
323+ /// - The metavariable span comes from a different crate, then we prefer the more local span.
324+ ///
325+ /// FIXME: Find a way to keep both original and metavariable spans for all tokens without
326+ /// regressing compilation time too much. Several experiments for adding such spans were made in
327+ /// the past (PR #95580, #118517, #118671) and all showed some regressions.
328+ fn maybe_use_metavar_location (
329+ cx : & ExtCtxt < ' _ > ,
330+ orig_tt : & TokenTree ,
331+ metavar_span : Span ,
332+ undelimited_seq : bool ,
333+ ) -> TokenTree {
334+ if undelimited_seq || cx. source_map ( ) . is_imported ( metavar_span) {
335+ return orig_tt. clone ( ) ;
336+ }
337+
338+ match orig_tt {
339+ TokenTree :: Token ( Token { kind, span } , spacing) => {
340+ let span = metavar_span. with_ctxt ( span. ctxt ( ) ) ;
341+ TokenTree :: Token ( Token { kind : kind. clone ( ) , span } , * spacing)
342+ }
343+ TokenTree :: Delimited ( dspan, dspacing, delimiter, tts) => {
344+ let dspan = DelimSpan :: from_pair (
345+ metavar_span. shrink_to_lo ( ) . with_ctxt ( dspan. open . ctxt ( ) ) ,
346+ metavar_span. shrink_to_hi ( ) . with_ctxt ( dspan. close . ctxt ( ) ) ,
347+ ) ;
348+ TokenTree :: Delimited ( dspan, * dspacing, * delimiter, tts. clone ( ) )
349+ }
350+ }
351+ }
352+
305353/// Lookup the meta-var named `ident` and return the matched token tree from the invocation using
306354/// the set of matches `interpolations`.
307355///
@@ -402,7 +450,7 @@ fn lockstep_iter_size(
402450 size. with ( lockstep_iter_size ( tt, interpolations, repeats) )
403451 } )
404452 }
405- TokenTree :: MetaVar ( _, name) | TokenTree :: MetaVarDecl ( _, name, _) => {
453+ TokenTree :: MetaVar ( _, name, _ ) | TokenTree :: MetaVarDecl ( _, name, _) => {
406454 let name = MacroRulesNormalizedIdent :: new ( * name) ;
407455 match lookup_cur_matched ( name, interpolations, repeats) {
408456 Some ( matched) => match matched {
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