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Bug 791556 - Accidental type aliasing when passing int arrays to generic methods results in concatenated ints
Accidental type aliasing when passing int arrays to generic methods results i...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 792534
Product: vala
Classification: Core
Component: Generics
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Vala maintainers
Vala maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-13 07:34 UTC by bob
Modified: 2018-01-15 18:33 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
Test case (369 bytes, text/x-vala)
2017-12-13 07:35 UTC, bob 		Details

Description bob 2017-12-13 07:34:18 UTC 
(Sorry if the title is a little vague, wasn't quite sure how to tersely explain)

If a method accepts a generic-typed array and you pass an int array in on a 64-bit system, the generated Vala code assumes there's one value per gpointer-sized element when in reality there's two. There's a test case coming in a moment for more info.

I'm not sure how (or if) this can really be fixed, but it seems like a moderately severe bug.
Comment 1 bob 2017-12-13 07:35:49 UTC 
Created attachment 365475 [details]
Test case

Expected output:

  ** Message: test.vala:4: 0xF
  ** Message: test.vala:4: 0x1F

Actual output:

  ** Message: test.vala:4: 0x1F0000000F
  ** Message: test.vala:4: 0x7F0000003F
Comment 2 Al Thomas 2018-01-15 18:33:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 792534 ***