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Support comparing arrays of non-constant size with array_equal #8208

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Using simple type equality is too strict for arrays of non-constant size: we introduce a fresh symbol for the size of each dynamically allocated object of non-constant size. Consequently, two dynamically allocated arrays of non-constant size will never pass type equality checking, even when their underlying sizes are the same.

We now explicitly compare the sizes of the two arrays passed to array_equal when types are not trivially equal.

Fixes: #8176

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Using simple type equality is too strict for arrays of non-constant
size: we introduce a fresh symbol for the size of each dynamically
allocated object of non-constant size. Consequently, two dynamically
allocated arrays of non-constant size will never pass type equality
checking, even when their underlying sizes are the same.

We now explicitly compare the sizes of the two arrays passed to
array_equal when types are not trivially equal.

Fixes: diffblue#8176
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I am wondering what happens when you compare two arrays with element types that have different sizes?

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I am wondering what happens when you compare two arrays with element types that have different sizes?

With the proposed patch the element sizes wouldn't actually matter anymore. Which, of course, raises the question: what is the semantics of array_equal that we want? What if one of the arguments isn't an array?

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Do you expect it to check type equality or content equality?

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