From 2624de058895b408de70428eb340a2cce5d9ee5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:41:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #9754 [backport] (#15342)

(cherry picked from commit 8b66412a8bfebcd53f09d0e608b418a05d13516a)
---
 lib/core/typeinfo.nim | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/typeinfo.nim b/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
index d8bbfb6422..a0d7f367ec 100644
--- a/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
+++ b/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ proc setPointer*(x: Any, y: pointer) =
   ## ``akPointer``, ``akSequence``.
   assert x.rawType.kind in {tyString, tyCString, tyRef, tyPtr, tyPointer,
                             tySequence, tyProc}
-  cast[ppointer](x.value)[] = y
+  genericAssign(x.value, y, x.rawType)
 
 proc fieldsAux(p: pointer, n: ptr TNimNode,
                ret: var seq[tuple[name: cstring, any: Any]]) =