Douglas Bagnall 812998b15f python:build: do not allow sizeof(int) != 4 ...

A non-32 bit int will (if the compiler allows it) result in code
where we write into memory adjacent to a target uint32_t value in
many python bindings using the python arg-parsing API. The more
correct thing to do would be to always parse into an unsigned long
long and error if it is greater than UINT32_MAX, but we do this in
so many places that there is reason to believe we'll just keep
adding more.

Note, we already check in lib/replace/wscript that int is at least
32 bits; here we are effectively just checking that it is not more.

There was apparently a version of 64 bit Solaris in the 1990s that
had 64 bit ints.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Jennifer Sutton <jennifersutton@catalyst.net.nz>

2025-08-26 22:42:39 +00:00

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