From 349ee54838f57e3df05deb965211aac010c26bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Juan=20M=20G=C3=B3mez?= <info@jmgomez.me>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:11:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes a nimsuggest crash (#24873)

(cherry picked from commit e7f73bfebee41c597f5e37b5e635e413944324b7)
---
 compiler/vmgen.nim | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/compiler/vmgen.nim b/compiler/vmgen.nim
index 4afe01a7e3..e8612000a3 100644
--- a/compiler/vmgen.nim
+++ b/compiler/vmgen.nim
@@ -1885,6 +1885,10 @@ proc genCheckedObjAccess(c: PCtx; n: PNode; dest: var TDest; flags: TGenFlags) =
   c.freeTemp(objR)
 
 proc genArrAccess(c: PCtx; n: PNode; dest: var TDest; flags: TGenFlags) =
+  if n[0].typ == nil: 
+    globalError(c.config, n.info, "cannot access array with nil type")
+    return
+
   let arrayType = n[0].typ.skipTypes(abstractVarRange-{tyTypeDesc}).kind
   case arrayType
   of tyString, tyCstring: