From 62b9dcb8dbc46df654a900f434f9cbfbdd67e556 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:45:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fixes #13698 [backport:1.2] (#14175)

(cherry picked from commit 89be5be03e316193126cca637b326358489be908)
---
 lib/system/memory.nim       | 4 ++--
 tests/misc/trangechecks.nim | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/system/memory.nim b/lib/system/memory.nim
index 8d190e5f9d..50faa3d862 100644
--- a/lib/system/memory.nim
+++ b/lib/system/memory.nim
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ proc nimCmpMem*(a, b: pointer, size: Natural): cint {.compilerproc, nonReloadabl
       if d != 0: return d
       inc i
 
-proc nimCStrLen*(a: cstring): csize_t {.compilerproc, nonReloadable, inline.} =
+proc nimCStrLen*(a: cstring): int {.compilerproc, nonReloadable, inline.} =
   when useLibC:
-    c_strlen(a)
+    cast[int](c_strlen(a))
   else:
     var a = cast[ptr byte](a)
     while a[] != 0:
diff --git a/tests/misc/trangechecks.nim b/tests/misc/trangechecks.nim
index 2c6f0f66d3..4266e6e4f3 100644
--- a/tests/misc/trangechecks.nim
+++ b/tests/misc/trangechecks.nim
@@ -41,3 +41,8 @@ except OverflowError, RangeError:
   echo x
 
 echo expected == 4
+
+# bug #13698
+var
+  x45 = "hello".cstring
+  p = x45.len.int32