Alexey Izbyshev <izbys...@ispras.ru> added the comment:
Such casts will also trigger a CFI violation if somebody tries to build Python (and the libc, in this case) with a signature-based CFI [1, 2]. It checks that the compile-time callee signature matches the signature of the actually called function in runtime. [1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html [2] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/control-flow-integrity-in-android-kernel.html ---------- nosy: +izbyshev _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33015> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
