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gh-131296: Fix clang-cl warning on Windows in posixmodule.c - #133142

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gh-131296: Fix clang-cl warning on Windows in posixmodule.c#133142
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@Wulian233Wulian233 commented Apr 29, 2025

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Only 1 warning in posixmodule.c

..\Modules\posixmodule.c(4193,17): warning : result of comparison of constant 4611686018427387903 with expression of ty
pe 'DWORD' (aka 'unsigned long') is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare] 

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looks good. do we also need to update relevant test for this change?

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Generally not. We only fix some compilation warnings and did not make obviously change. can refer to #131296

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the space needed for the terminator. */
if (len >= Py_ARRAY_LENGTH(wbuf)) {
if (len <= PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(wchar_t)) {
if ((Py_ssize_t)len <= PY_SSIZE_T_MAX / sizeof(wchar_t)) {

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This indeed fixes the warning. IMHO, that's the most pragmatic fix. We could be fancy and do some #if on sizeof(Py_ssize_t), etc, but I don't think it is worth the hassle.

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sizeof doesn't work in preprocessor checks anyway.

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Yeah, I meant something like we do with SIZEOF_SIZE_T, but did not want to elaborate about it in great detail, because IMHO it isn't worth the churn?

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@zooba Could you review and merge it, thank you!

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It's a bit of an annoying warning, because they'd be justified in still warning even with the cast (since it still can't ever be larger than that value for a given architecture), but there's nothing more we can do about it. If this cast ever stops suppressing the warning, then we probably just have to disable the warning.

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zooba merged commit b6c2ef0 into python:mainMay 5, 2025
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Pranjal095 pushed a commit to Pranjal095/cpython that referenced this pull request Jul 12, 2025
Clang-cl detects that on 32-bit builds the variable is always smaller than the value. But since the same code is used for other architectures, we can't just _fix_ it. This cast avoids the tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare warning.
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