fix constant expressions sometimes having the wrong value #1198
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Summary
Fix a critical bug with the constant-data table, which led to, in rare
cases, constant aggregate construction expressions evaluating to the
wrong value at run-time. All backends were affected.
Details
The
MirNode
comparison procedure ofDataTable
didn't take allrelevant fields into account, meaning that unequal
mnkObjConstr
,mnkConstr
, andmnkField
were treated as equal. For example, thecomparison would result in 'true' for
Obj(a: 1)
andObj(b: 1)
.This problem was hidden by the hashing procedure properly considering
all relevant
MirNode
fields; only when there were hash or bucketcollisions did the equality problem surface. All fields are taken into
account by
datatables.==
now, and the used case statement is madeexhaustive in order to prevent similar issues in the future.
Since a language-level test would be rather contrived and brittle (a
hash/bucket collision is required), a unit test for the comparison
used by
datatables
is added.