From 1287fc5e1b82a966cce1380250509808b9fb3c70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:06:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Properly handle non-normalized vararg tuples in
 tuple_type_tail

In preparation for #31681 in particular, but the problem exists on master
as well, we just tend to not encounter non-normalized tuple types that often.
---
 base/essentials.jl | 4 +++-
 test/tuple.jl      | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/essentials.jl b/base/essentials.jl
index cc21bd6c144bc..34f993d22642f 100644
--- a/base/essentials.jl
+++ b/base/essentials.jl
@@ -212,7 +212,9 @@ function tuple_type_tail(T::Type)
     else
         T.name === Tuple.name || throw(MethodError(tuple_type_tail, (T,)))
         if isvatuple(T) && length(T.parameters) == 1
-            return T
+            va = T.parameters[1]
+            (isa(va, DataType) && isa(va.parameters[2], Int)) || return T
+            return Tuple{Vararg{va.parameters[1], va.parameters[2]-1}}
         end
         return Tuple{argtail(T.parameters...)...}
     end
diff --git a/test/tuple.jl b/test/tuple.jl
index 3945a9156cc58..26d5d5f58d953 100644
--- a/test/tuple.jl
+++ b/test/tuple.jl
@@ -448,3 +448,6 @@ end
     @test map(p->getproperty(ttest, p), propertynames(ttest)) == ttest
     @test_throws ErrorException setproperty!(ttest, 1, :d)
 end
+
+# tuple_type_tail on non-normalized vararg tuple
+@test Base.tuple_type_tail(Tuple{Vararg{T, 3}} where T<:Real) == Tuple{Vararg{T, 2}} where T<:Real