[pypy-issue] Issue #2475: ctypes restype appears to have no effect (pypy/pypy)

[Graham Markall]

New issue 2475: ctypes restype appears to have no effect
https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues/2475/ctypes-restype-appears-to-have-no-effect

Graham Markall:

Compiling the following C source with gcc -shared -fPIC -o libtest.so test.c

int f() { return 0; }
int t() { return 1; }
int t2() { return 2; }

and then executing:

import ctypes
import os

lib = ctypes.CDLL(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'libtest.so'))

lib.f.restype = ctypes.c_bool
lib.t.restype = ctypes.c_bool
lib.t2.restype = ctypes.c_bool

print lib.f(), type(lib.f())
print lib.t(), type(lib.t())
print lib.t2(), type(lib.t2())

produces different results between CPython and PyPy. On PyPy 5.6.0 I get:

$ pypy test.py 
0 <type 'int'>
1 <type 'int'>
2 <type 'int'>

whereas with CPython 2.7.13 I get:

$ python test.py 
False <type 'bool'>
True <type 'bool'>
True <type 'bool'>

It appears as if setting restype has no effect - should this be expected to work under PyPy?