From 8b66412a8bfebcd53f09d0e608b418a05d13516a 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)

---
 lib/core/typeinfo.nim | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/core/typeinfo.nim b/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
index b1b9bcb27357..9fd8ebf8cef9 100644
--- a/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
+++ b/lib/core/typeinfo.nim
@@ -327,10 +327,7 @@ proc setPointer*(x: Any, y: pointer) =
   ## ``akString``, ``akCString``, ``akProc``, ``akRef``, ``akPtr``,
   ## ``akPointer``, ``akSequence``.
   assert x.rawType.kind in pointerLike
-  when defined(gcDestructors):
-    genericAssign(x.value, y, x.rawType)
-  else:
-    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]]) =