From 41f07acf22349d7257acce4fc91aa4140e624a42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristoffer Carlsson <kcarlsson89@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:55:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] remove error when calling fieldtype on a Module (#34804)

---
 src/builtins.c | 2 --
 test/misc.jl   | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/builtins.c b/src/builtins.c
index 8f7133adfb3e4..9039e579e03dc 100644
--- a/src/builtins.c
+++ b/src/builtins.c
@@ -885,8 +885,6 @@ JL_CALLABLE(jl_f_fieldtype)
     }
     JL_NARGS(fieldtype, 2, 2);
     jl_datatype_t *st = (jl_datatype_t*)args[0];
-    if (st == jl_module_type)
-        jl_error("cannot assign variables in other modules");
     return get_fieldtype(args[0], args[1], 1);
 }
 
diff --git a/test/misc.jl b/test/misc.jl
index 00e44099f6d2f..1d096b2828de2 100644
--- a/test/misc.jl
+++ b/test/misc.jl
@@ -804,3 +804,7 @@ end
 
     GC.safepoint()
 end
+
+@testset "fieldtypes Module" begin
+    @test fieldtypes(Module) isa Tuple
+end