From: Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 07:24:56 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: discard useless (PyObject*) casts from values of builtin types which are PyObject... 
X-Git-Tag: 0.20b1~149
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c6e62fd1aeac71e6aee500a941b1c09d412b312;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fpython-cython.git

discard useless (PyObject*) casts from values of builtin types which are PyObject* internally anyway (saves lots of C code)
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diff --git a/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py b/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
index 53d457f..0d66c07 100644
--- a/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
+++ b/Cython/Compiler/PyrexTypes.py
@@ -3760,9 +3760,13 @@ def typecast(to_type, from_type, expr_code):
     #  Return expr_code cast to a C type which can be
     #  assigned to to_type, assuming its existing C type
     #  is from_type.
-    if to_type is from_type or \
-        (not to_type.is_pyobject and assignable_from(to_type, from_type)):
-            return expr_code
+    if (to_type is from_type or
+            (not to_type.is_pyobject and assignable_from(to_type, from_type))):
+        return expr_code
+    elif (to_type is py_object_type and from_type and
+            from_type.is_builtin_type and from_type.name != 'type'):
+        # no cast needed, builtins are PyObject* already
+        return expr_code
     else:
         #print "typecast: to", to_type, "from", from_type ###
         return to_type.cast_code(expr_code)