Assertion Failure when returning pointer with ^ operator instead of &

[Skarsh]

Context

I've been working on a simple UDP server for a game I'm making, simple repro source code is added. Running odin test . causes Assertion Failure: global_error_collector.curr_error_value_set.load() == true`.

• Operating System & Odin Version:
• Please paste odin report output:
  Odin: dev-2024-03:eb61cf604
  OS: Windows 11 Home Basic (version: 23H2), build 22631.3296
  CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12500H
  RAM: 16109 MiB
  Backend: LLVM 17.0.1

Expected Behavior

Please describe the behavior you are expecting
Running odin test . on the provided code snippet below should cause Assertion Failure: global_error_collector.curr_error_value_set.load() == true

Current Behavior

What is the current behavior?
Running odin test . should cause Assertion Failure: global_error_collector.curr_error_value_set.load() == true

Steps to Reproduce

Small code subset that reproduces assertion trigger.
Run odin test . on this package.

import "core:encoding/endian"
import "core:fmt"
import "core:math"
import "core:net"
import "core:testing"

Server :: struct {
	max_clients:           int,
	num_connected_clients: int,
	client_connections:    [dynamic]bool,
	client_endpoints:      [dynamic]net.Endpoint,
}

get_client_endpoint :: proc(
	server: Server,
	client_idx: int,
) -> (
	^net.Endpoint,
	bool,
) {
	if (client_idx >= 0 && client_idx < len(server.client_endpoints)) {
		return ^server.client_endpoints[client_idx], true
	}
	return nil, false
}

parse_u32_from_bytes :: proc(buf: []byte) -> u32 {
	u32 := cast(^u32)(&buf[0])
	return u32^
}

@(test)
test_parse_u32_from_bytes_all_zero_bytes :: proc(t: ^testing.T) {
	buf := []byte{0, 0, 0, 0}
	u32 := parse_u32_from_bytes(buf[:])
	testing.expect(t, u32 == 0)
}

Now changing to returning &server.client_endpoints[client_idx], true instead of ^server.client_endpoints[client_idx], true does not trigger the assertion.

get_client_endpoint :: proc(
	server: Server,
	client_idx: int,
) -> (
	^net.Endpoint,
	bool,
) {
	if (client_idx >= 0 && client_idx < len(server.client_endpoints)) {
		return &server.client_endpoints[client_idx], true
	}
	return nil, false
}