[ruby-core:116301] [Ruby master Bug#20188] `Module#const_source_location` returns wrong information when real constant was defined but autoload is still ongoing

Issue #20188 has been updated by fxn (Xavier Noria).


> I think Module#const_source_location should not trigger the autoload, at least such a change seems out of scope of this issue.

Oh, was not proposing that.

That output was meant to be what I'd expect from the previous example (which triggers the autoload). The whole program would be:

```ruby
File.write('/tmp/bar.rb', 'Bar = 1; raise')
autoload :Bar, '/tmp/bar'
Bar rescue nil

# What I believe makes sense, but is not what happens today.
p Object.const_source_location(:Bar) # ["/tmp/bar.rb", 1]
p Object.autoload?(:Bar) # nil
p Bar # 1
```


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Bug #20188: `Module#const_source_location` returns wrong information when real constant was defined but autoload is still ongoing
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20188#change-106323

* Author: byroot (Jean Boussier)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.3.0 (2023-12-25 revision 5124f9ac75) [arm64-darwin23]
* Backport: 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN, 3.2: UNKNOWN, 3.3: UNKNOWN
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Ref: https://github.com/fxn/zeitwerk/issues/281

`const_source_location` keeps returning the location of the `autoload` call, even after the real constant was defined. It only starts returning the real constant location once the autoload was fully completed.

```ruby
# /tmp/autoload.rb
File.write("/tmp/const.rb", <<~RUBY)
module Const
  LOCATION = Object.const_source_location(:Const)
end
RUBY

autoload :Const, "/tmp/const"

p Const::LOCATION
```

Expected Output:

```ruby
["/tmp/const.rb", 1]
```

Actual Output:

```ruby
["/tmp/autoload.rb", 8]
```

Potential patch: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9549



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