Github user squito commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4039#issuecomment-70036236
  
    I think finding & fixing a bug in current behavior is a great reason to add 
a unit test.  Some part of the implementation is confusing enough to have 
allowed a bug in the first place, a test will help prevent that bug from 
cropping up again in future changes.
    
    From the description you gave me, this seems like a minimal test case:
    
    ```
    class SpecificMutableRowTest extends FunSuite with Matchers {
    
      test("update MutableAny") {
        val row = new SpecificMutableRow(Seq(StringType))
        row.update(0, 1)
        row.getInt(0) should be (1)
      }
    
    }
    ```
    
    I agree that this does seem kinda suspicious that maybe there is something 
deeper going on ... why is a field that is supposed to be an int getting 
assigned a type of `MutableAny` instead of `MutableInt`, though apparently 
`CatalystPrimitiveConverter` has decided to call the `int` specific methods 
like `setInt` etc.?


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