If typealias is defined in a separate file, then after changing some base types, an incremental compilation of Kotlin could not find all affected files, because of lack of information, which it can not get on the class file analyzing phase. FIR provides a new approach to IC compilation: now we can run the frontend several times, which allows us to obtain all necessary information and use it to mark all affected files for recompilation.
Relates to KT-54991
#KT-28233 Fixed
Aleksei.Cherepanov
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