[issue46966] c_void_p array is a footgun on I32LP64 systems

[JP Sugarbroad]

New submission from JP Sugarbroad <taralx at gmail.com>:

The following code will likely crash on I32LP64 systems:

dim = lib.get_array_size(opaque)
ptrs = (c_void_p * dim)()
lib.get_array_values(opaque, ptrs)
for ptr in ptrs:
    print(lib.get_object_value(ptr))

What happens is that `ptr` is not a `c_void_p` -- it's just a bare number. And when it's passed to another function it goes in as a (32-bit) `c_int`, resulting in a truncation.

I'm not sure what can be done here (maybe a truncation warning?) but it's definitely a difficult bug to notice when reviewing code.

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components: ctypes
messages: 414783
nosy: taralx
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: c_void_p array is a footgun on I32LP64 systems
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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