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* [pushed] gdb/python: prevent conversion from pointer to bool in to_python()
@ 2026-10-01 14:38 Jan Vrany
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From: Jan Vrany @ 2026-10-01 14:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches; +Cc: Jan Vrany, Tom Tromey

While converting some Python code to use new "safety" APIs I realized
that calling to_python() with a pointer like (for example):

   to_python (symtab->compunit ().objfile ())

calls to_python(bool) which is unlikely to be what the user wants.
This commit changes the code to make it a compile-time error.

After trying several approaches, the least intrusive seemed to be
handling bool specially in to_python() template for integral types and
removing to_python(bool) altogether. This way, the above example fails
with:

    error: no matching function for call to ‘to_python(objfile*)’

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
---
 gdb/python/py-safety.h | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/python/py-safety.h b/gdb/python/py-safety.h
index 3294f38c8b6..9414951b9ba 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-safety.h
+++ b/gdb/python/py-safety.h
@@ -71,17 +71,13 @@ namespace safety_details
    used in gdb, these are all Python-facing and will return NULL on
    error.  */
 
-static inline PyObject *
-to_python (bool value)
-{
-  return PyBool_FromLong (value);
-}
-
 template<typename T, typename = gdb::Requires<std::is_integral<T>>>
 static inline PyObject *
 to_python (T value)
 {
-  if constexpr (std::is_signed<T>::value)
+  if constexpr (std::is_same<T, bool>::value)
+    return PyBool_FromLong (value);
+  else if constexpr (std::is_signed<T>::value)
     return gdb_py_object_from_longest (value).release ();
   else
     return gdb_py_object_from_ulongest (value).release ();
-- 
2.53.0



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