Interpreter (repl): migrate types even if their size remains the same #12581
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This is a small fix to the repl. Hopefully we can include it for 1.6.1.
Here's the problem:
The problem is that the repl will migrate the type of local variables if their "codegen" size changes. However, here the type changes from a reference type to a union of reference types, but that union representation's size is the same (it's just a pointer.) But the types should still be migrated (the old type must be changed to the new type.)
This PR fixes that. It now works like this: