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The flatbuffers Table::ClearField method is dangerous #33

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@bsilver8192

We patch flatbuffers to add a Table::ClearField method. This method modifies an existing vtable. I think this vtable may be shared with other tables (in the same buffer), which means it will clear the same field for them too.

I think this is the reason upstream doesn't have a GetMutableVTable, because there aren't really any modifications to a vtable which are safe at this point in its lifecycle.

Presumably there's some way to find/create a vtable with the field unset and swap to that, but I have not yet dug in enough to find it.

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