bpo-44378: Fix a compiler warning in Py_IS_TYPE() (GH-26644)
Py_IS_TYPE() no longer uses Py_TYPE() to avoid a compiler warning:
no longer cast "const PyObject*" to "PyObject*".
(cherry picked from commit 304dfec8d3c0763734ea8b5fa2af1d9e1ce69ffa)
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index 4c06999..109f535 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -141,7 +141,9 @@
static inline int _Py_IS_TYPE(const PyObject *ob, const PyTypeObject *type) {
- return Py_TYPE(ob) == type;
+ // bpo-44378: Don't use Py_TYPE() since Py_TYPE() requires a non-const
+ // object.
+ return ob->ob_type == type;
}
#define Py_IS_TYPE(ob, type) _Py_IS_TYPE(_PyObject_CAST_CONST(ob), type)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-10-15-22-31.bpo-44378.jGYakF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-10-15-22-31.bpo-44378.jGYakF.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b620b49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-10-15-22-31.bpo-44378.jGYakF.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:c:func:`Py_IS_TYPE` no longer uses :c:func:`Py_TYPE` to avoid a compiler
+warning: no longer cast ``const PyObject*`` to ``PyObject*``.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.
