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`VALUE` should not be used as object identity

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby, wasm
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by investigating the VALUE representation and the GC.compact entry point in the CRuby WebAssembly port. Confirm how object identity is affected during compaction and identify the relevant test or reproduction; done means the behavior is reproducibly specified and a suitable fix is scoped.

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Description

VALUE might be changed while GC compaction with GC.compact

Dominant language
Ruby
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Forks
68
Avg merge
9d 5h
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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