Merge pull request #342 from scala/backport-lts-3.3-22893

Backport "Approximate annotated types in `wildApprox`" to 3.3 LTS

Author: tgodzik

compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/typer/ProtoTypes.scala

@@ -950,6 +950,15 @@ object ProtoTypes {
         paramInfos = tl.paramInfos.mapConserve(wildApprox(_, theMap, seen, internal1).bounds),
         resType = wildApprox(tl.resType, theMap, seen, internal1)
       )
+    case tp @ AnnotatedType(parent, _) =>
+      // This case avoids approximating types in the annotation tree, which can
+      // cause the type assigner to fail.
+      // See #22893 and tests/pos/annot-default-arg-22874.scala.
+      val parentApprox = wildApprox(parent, theMap, seen, internal)
+      if tp.isRefining then
+        WildcardType(TypeBounds.upper(parentApprox))
+      else
+        parentApprox
     case _ =>
       (if (theMap != null && seen.eq(theMap.seen)) theMap else new WildApproxMap(seen, internal))
         .mapOver(tp)

tests/pos/annot-default-arg-22874.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+package defaultArgBug
+
+class staticAnnot(arg: Int) extends scala.annotation.StaticAnnotation
+class refiningAnnot(arg: Int) extends scala.annotation.RefiningAnnotation
+
+def f1(a: Int, b: Int @staticAnnot(a + a) = 42): Int = b
+def f2(a: Int, b: Int @refiningAnnot(a + a) = 42): Int = b