From a8939686a15f966919823bc97c371be60b99aab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: narimiran <narimiran@disroot.org>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 14:47:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] close #8199 by adding a test

---
 tests/vm/tcompiletimerange.nim | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/vm/tcompiletimerange.nim

diff --git a/tests/vm/tcompiletimerange.nim b/tests/vm/tcompiletimerange.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd809985e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/vm/tcompiletimerange.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# issue #8199
+
+const rangesGCHoldEnabled = not defined(rangesDisableGCHold)
+
+type
+  # A view into immutable array
+  Range* {.shallow.} [T] = object
+    when rangesGCHoldEnabled:
+      gcHold: seq[T]
+    start: ptr T
+    mLen: int32
+
+type
+  BytesRange* = Range[byte]
+  NibblesRange* = object
+    bytes: BytesRange
+
+const
+  zeroBytesRange* = BytesRange()
+
+proc initNibbleRange*(bytes: BytesRange): NibblesRange =
+  result.bytes = bytes
+
+const
+  zeroNibblesRange* = initNibbleRange(zeroBytesRange)