go/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/validtype.go

// validType verifies that the given type does not "expand" indefinitely
// producing a cycle in the type graph.
// (Cycles involving alias types, as in "type A = [10]A" are detected
// earlier, via the objDecl cycle detection mechanism.)
func (check *Checker) validType(typ *Named) { … }

// validType0 checks if the given type is valid. If typ is a type parameter
// its value is looked up in the type argument list of the instantiated
// (enclosing) type, if it exists. Otherwise the type parameter must be from
// an enclosing function and can be ignored.
// The nest list describes the stack (the "nest in memory") of types which
// contain (or embed in the case of interfaces) other types. For instance, a
// struct named S which contains a field of named type F contains (the memory
// of) F in S, leading to the nest S->F. If a type appears in its own nest
// (say S->F->S) we have an invalid recursive type. The path list is the full
// path of named types in a cycle, it is only needed for error reporting.
func (check *Checker) validType0(pos syntax.Pos, typ Type, nest, path []*Named) bool { … }

// makeObjList returns the list of type name objects for the given
// list of named types.
func makeObjList(tlist []*Named) []Object { … }