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Fix size of type_id in Object.set_crystal_type_id #13338

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@straight-shoota straight-shoota commented Apr 18, 2023

The type of crystal_type_id is Int32, not LibC::SizeT. On 64-bit systems this wrong size would write a 64-bit integer into a space that's only suppose to be 32-bit wide.

This bug has limited practical effect. Due to byte ordering the memory representation of 32-bit and small 64-bit values are (usually) identical. The type id is never wider than 32-bits so this works correctly. The only negative side effect would be overriding the first 4 bytes of the object data that follows the type id.
This method is only called from WeakRef.allocate on an empty object where this is irrelevant.

It's sill a bug and needs to be fixed. For the fix I opted to infer the type based on the type of crystal_instance_type_id (which is a compiler primitive). The size does not need to be hard-coded into stdlib.

@straight-shoota straight-shoota added kind:bug A bug in the code. Does not apply to documentation, specs, etc. topic:stdlib:runtime labels Apr 18, 2023
@straight-shoota straight-shoota self-assigned this Apr 18, 2023
@straight-shoota straight-shoota added this to the 1.9.0 milestone Apr 18, 2023
@straight-shoota straight-shoota merged commit 24ea737 into crystal-lang:master Apr 20, 2023
@straight-shoota straight-shoota deleted the fix/set_crystal_type branch April 20, 2023 08:44
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