py/misc: Change sizeof to offsetof for variable-length alloc. #12866
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This fixes the case where e.g.
will have
sizeof(struct foo_t)==8
, butoffsetof(struct foo_t, buf)==6
.When computing the size to allocate for
m_new_obj_var
we need to use offsetof to avoid over-allocating. This is important especially when it might cause it to spill over into another GC block.All of the places that
m_new_obj_var
is currently used will be unchanged as the variable length field always follows a word-size field, but see e.g. #12836 which requires this.This work was funded through GitHub Sponsors.