fix(bindings): repair the two example command-line paths that #2546 revives

[LeSingh1]

Two defects that both sit behind an argv option. check_cmd_line_flag currently always returns False (enumerate unpacked backwards — that is #2546), so neither can fire today; fixing the helper turns both into immediate failures. tests/test_examples.py runs every example with no arguments, so CI catches neither. Grouped because they are the same class and the same trigger.

1. simple_zero_copy.py: cudaGetDeviceCount() is not unwrapped

cuda_bindings/examples/0_Introduction/simple_zero_copy.py:71-75:

ifcheck_cmd_line_flag("device="):
device_count=cudart.cudaGetDeviceCount()
idev=int(get_cmd_line_argument_int("device="))
ifidev>=device_countoridev<0:

The bindings return (cudaError_t, count) (runtime.pyx:21309), so device_count is a tuple and the comparison raises:

TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'tuple'

Every other call site in the examples wraps it — e.g. simple_p2p.py:52, gpu_n = check_cuda_errors(cudart.cudaGetDeviceCount()). Fixed the same way.

2. global_to_shmem_async_copy.py: grid_shared_state_kernel.z is never set

cuda_bindings/examples/3_CUDA_Features/global_to_shmem_async_copy.py:795-801:

grid_shared_state_kernel=cudart.dim3()
grid_shared_state_kernel.x=dims_b.x/threads_shared_state_kernel.xgrid_shared_state_kernel.y=dims_a.y/threads_shared_state_kernel.x

C++ dim3 defaults every component to 1, which is why the C sample can write dim3 gridSharedStateKernel(a, b). cudart.dim3 is a cdef class whose backing struct is zero-initialised (runtime.pyx:7639-7643 — self._pvt_ptr = &self._pvt_val), so .z stays 0. It is then passed as gridDimZ at both cuLaunchKernel sites for Kernels.AsyncCopyMultiStageSharedState (lines 866 and 1003), which the driver rejects with CUDA_ERROR_INVALID_VALUE.

Every other dim3 in the file and in the sibling examples sets .z explicitly — including grid twelve lines above (grid.z = 1), threads_shared_state_kernel.z immediately before it, simple_cubemap_texture.py:162, and simple_p2p.py:151 — so this one omission is clearly unintended. Reachable via kernel=3.

Deliberately not touched: grid_shared_state_kernel.y = dims_a.y / threads_shared_state_kernel.x uses .x where the sibling grid.y uses .y. That matches the upstream C sample and is intentional — the 16x18 block has only 16 consumer rows.

What I ran

Environment: macOS, no CUDA driver and no CUDA toolkit.

• Did not run: either example, or cuda_bindings/tests/test_examples.py — both need a GPU, and Docs #2 additionally needs kernel=3, which is unreachable until Fix command line parsing in the cuda.bindings example helpers #2546 lands.
• Ran: a reduction of the comparison in Renaming #1 with the tuple the bindings actually return:

before -> TypeError: '>=' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'tuple'
after -> False

• Ran:python -m py_compile, ruff check, ruff format --check on both files — clean, no new findings against a main baseline.
• Checked by inspection (not executed):cudart.dim3().z == 0. I could not import cuda.bindings here, so this rests on runtime.pyx:7639-7643 (the wrapper points at an in-object struct member, which CPython zero-fills on allocation) plus the fact that dim3 exposes no constructor arguments other than _ptr.

Overlap notes: simple_zero_copy.py is one of the files #2266 (samples migration) deletes; global_to_shmem_async_copy.py is not. If #2266 lands first, fix#1 should travel with the migrated copy — flagging rather than guessing.

Refs #2546

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