FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

[wkrueger]

TS 2.3.4
windows (10)
node 6.10.3

Code and compiler settings:
https://gist.github.com/wkrueger/b32ab6cde783ce7eb0616750a6bb4e17

Message

<--- Last few GCs --->

   23157 ms: Mark-sweep 1299.1 (1437.7) -> 1299.0 (1437.7) MB, 1115.8 / 0.0 ms [allocation failure] [GC in old
space requested].
   24253 ms: Mark-sweep 1299.0 (1437.7) -> 1299.0 (1437.7) MB, 1095.7 / 0.0 ms [allocation failure] [GC in old
space requested].
   25404 ms: Mark-sweep 1299.0 (1437.7) -> 1305.2 (1421.7) MB, 1150.4 / 0.0 ms [last resort gc].
   26555 ms: Mark-sweep 1305.2 (1421.7) -> 1311.4 (1421.7) MB, 1151.2 / 0.0 ms [last resort gc].


<--- JS stacktrace --->

==== JS stack trace =========================================

Security context: 000000D32D7CFB49 <JS Object>
    1: recursiveTypeRelatedTo [C:\Users\willian.krueger\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\typescript\lib\tsc.js:
~27844] [pc=00000151F9DED0C9] (this=000001F8339549A9 <JS Global Object>,source=0000030DAEBA6BD9 <a Type with ma
p 0000021301357F51>,target=00000347A7B2BF51 <a Type with map 00000213013516D1>,reportErrors=000000D32D704271 <f
alse>)
    2: isRelatedTo [C:\Users\willian.krueger\AppData\Ro...

FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

I tried disabling the tsconfig.json settings one by one and found out that when disabling strictNullChecks the errors stops ocurring.

[IrickNcqa]

Same issue in v2.4.1 - https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16777

[sandersn]

I mistakenly put all the commentary for this bug in #16165. Summary: this bug is fixed in master, probably because of improved overload checking in 2.4.