JSDoc @return, @template tags crash tsc even with --checkJs=false

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Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

TypeError: Cannot read property 'flags' of undefined

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This is a crash that was introduced after version 3.8.3 and before (or on) version 3.9.9. Also crashes on latest version 4.1.5.

⏯ Playground Link

Playground link with relevant code

See crash in DevTools console

💻 Code

Contents of repro.js. Note: removed a lot of code from actual production code (in @polymer/polymer), to create a minimal repro.

/** @return {T} */
const dedupingMixin = function(mixin) {};

 /** @template {T} */
const PropertyAccessors = dedupingMixin(() => {
  class Bar {
    static bar() { this.prototype.foo(); }
  }
});

Repro with the following command

tsc repro.js --allowJs --outDir temp

🙁 Actual behavior

tsc crashes with the following stack trace

/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:82931
                throw e;
                ^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'flags' of undefined
    at lookupSymbolChainWorker (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:32382:46)
    at lookupSymbolChain (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:32378:24)
    at symbolToTypeNode (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:32529:29)
    at typeReferenceToTypeNode (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:32019:47)
    at typeToTypeNodeHelper (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:31767:95)
    at /private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:31584:106
    at withContext (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:31633:37)
    at Object.typeToTypeNode (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:31584:28)
    at typeToString (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:31551:40)
    at reportNonexistentProperty (/private/tmp/debug_tsc/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsc.js:47826:209)

Note that removing either the @return or the @template JSDoc tags causes the crash to go away.

🙂 Expected behavior

Typescript compiler should not crash. Moreover, it crashes even with the --checkJs false flag.

Note: Found another similar, but not identical issue at #29570.